New Living Translation

1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God (Elohim) from inside the fish. 2 He said, “I cried out to the LORD in my great trouble,<br>and he answered me.<br>I called to you from the land of the dead,<br>and LORD, you heard me!<br> 3 You threw me into the ocean depths,<br>and I sank down to the heart of the sea.<br>The mighty waters engulfed me;<br>I was buried beneath your wild and stormy waves.<br> 4 Then I said, ‘O LORD, you have driven me from your presence.<br>Yet I will look once more toward your holy Temple.’<br> 5 “I sank beneath the waves,<br>and the waters closed over me.<br>Seaweed wrapped itself around my head.<br> 6 I sank down to the very roots of the mountains.<br>I was imprisoned in the earth,<br>whose gates lock shut forever.<br>But you, O LORD my God (Elohim),<br>snatched me from the jaws of death!<br> 7 As my life was slipping away,<br>I remembered the LORD.<br>And my earnest prayer went out to you<br>in your holy Temple.<br> 8 Those who worship false gods<br>turn their backs on all God (Elohim)’s mercies.<br> 9 But I will offer sacrifices to you with songs of praise,<br>and I will fulfill all my vows.<br>For my salvation comes from the LORD alone.”<br> 10 Then the LORD ordered the fish to spit Jonah out onto the beach.