Jonah 2:4-6

Easy-to-Read Version

⁴Then I thought, ‘Now I must go where you cannot see me,’
but I continued looking to your holy Temple for help.

⁵“The seawater closed over me.
    The water covered my mouth,
    and I could not breathe.^[a]
I went down, down into the deep sea.
    Seaweed wrapped around my head.
⁶I was at the bottom of the sea,
    the place where the mountains begin.
I thought I was locked in this prison forever,
    but the Lord my God took me out of my grave.
God, you gave me life again!

Read full chapter

Footnotes

Jonah 2:5 mouth, and I could not breathe Or “The water surrounded me to my soul.” The Hebrew word for soul also means “life,” “self,” or “appetite,” and “throat” or “mouth.”