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- And Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly;
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- and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah, and he answered me;
Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice.
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- For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
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- And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple.
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- The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.
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- I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;
The bars of the earth [closed] upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
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- When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah;
And my prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple.
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- They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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- But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.
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- And Jehovah commanded the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry [land].
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