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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. a8
They that observe lying vanities b forsake their own mercy. c
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