Jonah 2

Tree of Life Version

“From my distress I cried to Adonai
    and He answered me.
From the belly of Sheol I cried for help
    and you heard my voice.^[c]
4 For you hurled me from the deep
        into the heart of the seas,
    and currents swirled around me.
All your waves and your breakers
    swept over me.”
⁵ And I said, “I have been banished
        from before your eyes.
    Yet I will continue to look
        toward your holy Temple.”
⁶ Waters surrounded me up to my soul.
    The deep sea engulfed me—
        reeds clung to my head.
⁷ To the bottoms of the mountains I went down.
    The earth with her bars was around me, forever!
    Yet You brought my life up from the Pit,
        Adonai my God.
⁸ As my soul was fading from me,
    I remembered Adonai
    and my prayer came to You,
        toward Your holy Temple.
⁹ Those who watch worthless empty things
    forsake their mercy.
¹⁰ But I, with a voice of thanks
        will sacrifice to you.
    What I vowed, I will pay.
    Salvation is from Adonai.”