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title: Jonah 2
slug: kjv/jonah-2
createdAt: 2024-08-25T03:17:22.187Z
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**1 **Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God 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 belly of hell cried I, *and* thou heardest my voice.

**3 **For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

**4 **Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

**5 **The waters compassed me about, *even* to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my 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 my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

**7 **When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

**8 **They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

**9 **But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay *that* that I have vowed. Salvation *is* of the LORD.

**10 **And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry *land*.