1And Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
2and he said, I cried to the LORD from my distress. And He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried for help, and You heard my voice.
3For You cast me into the depths of the seas, and the current surrounded me. All Your breakers and Your waves passed over me.
4Then I said, I am cast off from Your eyes, yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.
5Waters encompassed me, even to the soul; the depth closed around me; the seaweed was bound to my head.
6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was around me forever; yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
7When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came in to You, into Your holy temple.
8They who take heed to lying vanities forsake their kindness;
9but I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will fulfill that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the LORD!
10And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out on the dry land.
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Jonah 2
We left Jonah in the belly of the fish, and had reason to think we should hear no more of him, that if he were not destroyed by the waters of the sea he would be consumed in the bowels of that leviathan, "out of whose mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire, and whose breath kindles coals," Job xli. 19, 21. But God…
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