Appendix 1: The Structure of Jonah’s Prayer as a Thanksgiving Psalm in Jonah 2

3 You threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current overcame me.

All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.

4 But I said: I have been banished from Your sight, yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.

5 The waters engulfed me up to the neck; the watery depths overcame me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.

6 I sank to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever!

But You raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God!

7 As my life was fading away, I remembered Yahweh.

My prayer came to You, to Your holy temple.

Vow of Praise 9a

(Verse 9a repeats a vow of praise, possibly as a refrain.)