Jonas 2

¹ Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his GodBeing now swallowed up by death, and seeing no remedy to escape, his faith broke out to the Lord, knowing that out of this very hell he was able to deliver him.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 bellyFor he was now in the fishes belly as in a grave or place of darkness.of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.

³ For thou haddest cast me into the bottome in the middes of the sea, and the floods compassed me about: all thy surges, and all thy waues passed ouer me.

⁴ Then I said, I amThis declared what his prayer was, and how he laboured between hope and despair, considering the neglect of his vocation, and God's judgments for it: but yet in the end faith gained the victory.cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

⁵ The waters compassed me about vnto the soule: the depth closed me rounde about, and the weedes were wrapt about mine 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 myYou have delivered me from the belly of the fish and all these dangers, as it were raising me from death to life.life from corruption, O LORD my God.

⁷ When my soule fainted within me, I remembred the Lorde: and my prayer came vnto thee, into thine holy Temple.

⁸ They that observe lyingThose that depend upon anything except on God alone.vanities forsake their ownThey refuse their own felicity, and that goodness which they would otherwise receive from God.mercy.

⁹ But I will sacrifice vnto thee with the voice of thankesgiuing, and will pay that that I haue vowed: saluation is of the Lorde.

¹⁰ And the Lorde spake vnto the fish, and it cast out Ionah vpon the dry lande.