约拿的祷告

约拿在鱼腹中向他的上帝耶和华祷告说:

“我遭遇患难的时候向你求告,
你就应允我。
我在阴间的深处呼求你,
你也垂听我的声音。
你把我抛进深海,
茫茫大海把我吞没,
你的巨浪洪涛淹没我。
我心想,你已经驱逐我离开你的面,
但我要再瞻仰你的圣殿。
波涛环绕我,
深渊吞没我,
海草缠绕着我的头。
我下沉到山的根基,
大地的门把我永远关住;
然而,我的上帝耶和华啊,
你却把我的性命从深坑中拯救出来。
我的生命渐渐消逝的时候,
我就想起了耶和华。
我的祷告进入你的圣殿,
达到你面前。
那些信奉虚无神明的人,
背弃了怜爱他们的主[a]
但我要用感谢的声音向你献祭,
我必还我许的愿,
因为救恩来自耶和华。”
10 于是,耶和华命令那条鱼,
鱼就把约拿吐到陆地上。

Footnotes

  1. 2:8 背弃了怜爱他们的主”或译“背弃了他们对主的忠诚”。

Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly,

And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

I 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.

When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.

10 And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.