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          DASV: Jonah 2

1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish's belly.
2 He said,
     "I called to the LORD because of my distress,
            and he answered me.
     Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
            and you heard my voice.
3 You threw me into the depths,
            in the heart of the seas,
      the flood surrounded me;
            all your breakers and waves passed over me.
4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight;
            yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'
5 The waters surrounded me, even up to my neck;
            the deep was closing in on me;
     the weeds wrapped around my head.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;
            the earth with its bars closed in on me forever.
     Yet you have brought up my life from the pit,
            O LORD my God.
7 When my life was slipping away,
            I remembered the LORD;
     my prayer came in to you,
            to your holy temple.
8 Those who worship worthless idols
            forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving;
      I will fulfill that which I have vowed.
            Salvation is the LORD's."

10 Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out on
the dry land.
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