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Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from inside the fish.
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He said, “I cried out to the LORD in my great trouble, and he answered me. I called to you from the land of the dead, and LORD, you heard me!
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You threw me into the ocean depths, and I sank down to the heart of the sea. The mighty waters engulfed me; I was buried beneath your wild and stormy waves.
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Then I said, ‘O LORD, you have driven me from your presence. Yet I will look once more toward your holy Temple.’
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“I sank beneath the waves, and the waters closed over me. Seaweed wrapped itself around my head.
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I sank down to the very roots of the mountains. I was imprisoned in the earth, whose gates lock shut forever. But you, O LORD my God, snatched me from the jaws of death!
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As my life was slipping away, I remembered the LORD . And my earnest prayer went out to you in your holy Temple.