The Holy Bible – Knox Translation
The Prophecy of Jonas
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Chapter 2
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And what of Jonas? At the Lord’s bidding, a great sea-beast had swallowed him up; and there, in the belly of it, three days spent he and three nights.
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This was the prayer which Jonas made to the Lord his God, there in the belly of the sea-beast:
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Call I on the Lord in my peril, redress he grants me; from the very womb of the grave call I, thou art listening to me!
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Here in the depths of the sea’s heart thou wouldst cast me away, with the flood all about me, eddy of thine, wave of thine, sweeping over me,
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till it seemed as if I were shut out from thy regard: yet life thou grantest me; I shall gaze on thy holy temple once again.
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Around me the deadly waters close, the depths engulf me, the weeds are wrapped about my head;
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mountain caverns I must plumb, the very bars of earth my unrelenting prison; and still, O Lord my God, thou wilt raise me, living, from the tomb.
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Daunted this heart, yet still of the Lord I would bethink me; prayer of mine should reach him, far away in his holy temple!
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Let fools that court false worship all hope of pardon forgo;
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mine to do sacrifice in thy honour, vows made and paid to the Lord, my deliverer!

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And now, at the Lord’s bidding, the sea-beast cast Jonas up again, high and dry on the beach.