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I thought I had been banished from your presence
    and would never see your holy Temple again.
The water came over me and choked me;
    the sea covered me completely,
    and seaweed wrapped around my head.
I went down to the very roots of the mountains,
    into the land whose gates lock shut forever.[a]
But you, O Lord my God,
    brought me back from the depths alive.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:6 A reference to the world of the dead (see 2.2).

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