Jonah 2

New King James Version

Jonah’s Prayer and God’s Answer

2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly. ²And he said:

“I ^(A)cried out to the Lord because of my affliction,
^(B)And He answered me.

“Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
And You heard my voice.
³^(C)For You cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the floods surrounded me;
^(D)All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
⁴^(E)Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight;
Yet I will look again ^(F)toward Your holy temple.’
⁵The ^(G)waters surrounded me, even to my soul;
The deep closed around me;
Weeds were wrapped around my head.
⁶I went down to the ^[a]moorings of the mountains;
The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
Yet You have brought up my ^(H)life from the pit,
O Lord, my God.

⁷“When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the Lord;
^(I)And my prayer went up to You,
Into Your holy temple.

⁸“Those who regard ^(J)worthless idols
Forsake their own ^[b]Mercy.
⁹But I will ^(K)sacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay what I have ^(L)vowed.
^(M)Salvation is of the ^(N)Lord.”

¹⁰So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

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Footnotes

Jonah 2:6 foundations or bases
Jonah 2:8 Or Lovingkindness

1 Kings 8:38-40

New King James Version

³⁸whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple: ³⁹then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone ^(A)know the hearts of all the sons of men), ⁴⁰^(B)that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.

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