5. Then I said, “I am banished from your sight!How will I again look upon your holy temple?”
6. The waters surged around me up to my neck;the deep enveloped me;seaweed wrapped around my head.
7. I went down to the roots of the mountains;to the land whose bars closed behind me forever,But you brought my life up from the pit,O Lord, my God.
8. When I became faint,I remembered the Lord;My prayer came to youin your holy temple.
9. Those who worship worthless idolsabandon their hope for mercy.
10. But I, with thankful voice,will sacrifice to you;What I have vowed I will pay:deliverance is from the Lord.
11. Then the Lord commanded the fish to vomit Jonah upon dry land.