Jonas 2
La Bible du Semeur
Prière de Jonas au fond des mers
2 L’Eternel fit venir un grand poisson pour avaler Jonas. Durant trois jours et trois nuits, Jonas resta dans le ventre du poisson[a]. 2 Dans le ventre du poisson, il adressa cette prière[b] à l’Eternel son Dieu :
3 Dans ma détresse, ╵moi, j’ai crié à l’Eternel
et il m’a répondu[c].
Oui, du cœur du séjour des morts
j’ai crié au secours
et tu m’as entendu[d].
4 Tu m’avais jeté dans l’abîme ╵au fond des mers
et les courants m’ont encerclé,
tous tes flots et tes vagues ╵ont déferlé sur moi[e].
5 Je me disais :
Je suis chassé de devant toi[f].
Pourtant, je reverrai ╵ton temple saint.
6 Les eaux m’environnaient ╵et menaçaient ma vie,
l’abîme m’enserrait[g] ;
tout autour de ma tête, ╵les algues s’enlaçaient.
7 Et je suis descendu ╵jusqu’au tréfonds des mers ╵où naissent les montagnes.
La terre avait déjà ╵tiré derrière moi ╵ses verrous pour toujours.
Mais du fond de la fosse ╵tu m’as fait remonter vivant,
ô Eternel, mon Dieu[h] !
8 Quand je désespérais ╵de conserver la vie[i],
je me suis souvenu ╵de toi, ô Eternel[j],
et ma prière ╵est montée jusqu’à toi,
jusqu’à ton temple saint[k].
9 Ceux qui s’attachent ╵à de vaines idoles
se privent de la grâce[l].
10 Mais moi je t’offrirai ╵un sacrifice ╵en disant ma reconnaissance[m],
et je m’acquitterai ╵des vœux que j’ai formés,
car c’est de l’Eternel ╵que vient la délivrance[n].
11 L’Eternel parla au poisson qui rejeta Jonas sur la terre ferme.
Footnotes
- 2.1 Mentionné en Mt 12.40.
- 2.2 Prière de reconnaissance de Jonas, dans le ventre du poisson, pour la délivrance de la noyade (voir v. 4, 6-7).
- 2.3 Voir Ps 18.7 ; 30.3 ; 118.5 ; 120.1.
- 2.3 Voir Ps 130.1-2.
- 2.4 Voir Ps 42.8.
- 2.5 Voir Ps 31.23.
- 2.6 Voir Ps 18.5 ; 69.2-3.
- 2.7 Voir Ps 30.4 ; 71.20.
- 2.8 Autre traduction : alors que la vie me quittait.
- 2.8 Voir Ps 142.4 ; 143.4.
- 2.8 Voir Ps 18.7 ; 88.3.
- 2.9 Voir Ps 31.7. se privent de la grâce: traduction incertaine. Autre traduction : abandonnent l’amour pour l’Eternel.
- 2.10 Voir Ps 42.5 ; 50.14, 23 ; 66.13 ; 116.17-18.
- 2.10 Voir Ps 3.9.
Jonah 2
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly,
2 And said, I cried out of my distress to the Lord, and He heard me; out of the belly of Sheol cried I, and You heard my voice.(A)
3 For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me; all Your waves and Your billows passed over me.(B)
4 Then I said, I have been cast out of Your presence and Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.(C)
5 The waters compassed me about, even to [the extinction of] life; the abyss surrounded me, the seaweed was wrapped about my head.(D)
6 I went down to the bottoms and the very roots of the mountains; the earth with its bars closed behind me forever. Yet You have brought up my life from the pit and corruption, O Lord my God.
7 When my soul fainted upon me [crushing me], I earnestly and seriously remembered the Lord; and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple.
8 Those who pay regard to false, useless, and worthless idols forsake their own [Source of] mercy and loving-kindness.
9 But as for me, I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation and deliverance belong to the Lord!
10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah 2
King James Version
2 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly,
2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.
10 And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
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