3For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.c
4I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’d
5The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.e
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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