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
6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, 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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