And said, I cried in mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me: out of the belly [a]of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

For thou hadst cast me into the bottom in the midst of the sea, and the floods compassed me about: all thy surges, and all thy waves passed over me.

Then I said, I am [b]cast away out of thy sight: yet will I look again toward thine holy Temple.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:2 For he was now in the fish’s belly as in a grave or place of darkness.
  2. Jonah 2:4 This declared what his prayer was, and how he labored between hope and despair, considering the neglect of his vocation, and God’s judgments for the same: but yet in the end faith got the victory.

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