5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.e
6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
Jonah 2 records the prophet's prayer from inside the belly of a great fish. Having been thrown overboard in a storm, Jonah sinks to the depths of the sea, only to be swallowed and preserved. His prayer is a raw, poetic cry of desperation and repentance, quoting heavily from the P
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