Jonah 2:2-3:3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

“I called to the Lord, out of my distress,
    and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
    and thou didst hear my voice.
³ For thou didst cast me into the deep,
    into the heart of the seas,
    and the flood was round about me;
all thy waves and thy billows
    passed over me.
⁴ Then I said, ‘I am cast out
    from thy presence;
how shall I again look
    upon thy holy temple?’
⁵ The waters closed in over me,
    the deep was round about me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
⁶     at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
    whose bars closed upon me for ever;
yet thou didst bring up my life from the Pit,
    O Lord my God.
⁷ When my soul fainted within me,
    I remembered the Lord;
and my prayer came to thee,
    into thy holy temple.
⁸ Those who pay regard to vain idols
    forsake their true loyalty.
⁹ But I with the voice of thanksgiving
    will sacrifice to thee;
what I have vowed I will pay.
    Deliverance belongs to the Lord!”