JPS Tanakh 1917 I called out of mine affliction Unto the LORD, and He answered me; Out of the belly of the nether-world cried I, And Thou heardest my voice.
4For Thou didst cast me into the depth, In the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All Thy waves and Thy billows Passed over me.
5And I said: ‘I am cast out From before Thine eyes’; Yet I will look again Toward Thy holy temple.
6The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.
7I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with her bars closed upon me for ever; Yet hast Thou brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
8When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; And my prayer came in unto Thee, Into Thy holy temple.
9They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
10But I will sacrifice unto Thee With the voice of thanksgiving; That which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation is of the LORD.
11And the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT A NEW TRANSLATION |