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Jonah 2:1

Verse 1 of 10. The 2nd of 4 chapters in Jonah, in The Minor Prophets.

1Then Jonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

2He said, “I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

3For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

4I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

5The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.