Jonah 2

New King James Version

Jonah’s Prayer and God’s Answer

2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly. ²And he said:

“I ^(A)cried out to the Lord because of my affliction,
^(B)And He answered me.

“Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
And You heard my voice.
³^(C)For You cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the floods surrounded me;
^(D)All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
⁴^(E)Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight;
Yet I will look again ^(F)toward Your holy temple.’
⁵The ^(G)waters surrounded me, even to my soul;
The deep closed around me;
Weeds were wrapped around my head.
⁶I went down to the ^[a]moorings of the mountains;
The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
Yet You have brought up my ^(H)life from the pit,
O Lord, my God.

⁷“When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the Lord;
^(I)And my prayer went up to You,
Into Your holy temple.

⁸“Those who regard ^(J)worthless idols
Forsake their own ^[b]Mercy.
⁹But I will ^(K)sacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay what I have ^(L)vowed.
^(M)Salvation is of the ^(N)Lord.”

¹⁰So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

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Footnotes

Jonah 2:6 foundations or bases
Jonah 2:8 Or Lovingkindness

Jonah 3:1-5

New King James Version

Jonah Preaches at Nineveh

3 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, ²“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.” ³So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, ^[a]a three-day journey in extent. ⁴And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then ^(A)he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”