1. And Yonah prayed to יהוה his Elohim from the stomach of the fish.
2. And he said, “I called to יהוה because of my distress, and He answered me. From the stomach of the grave I cried, and You heard my voice.
3. “For You threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me. All Your breakers and Your waves passed over me.
4. “So I said, ‘I have been driven away from Your eyes. Would I ever look again toward Your set-apart Hĕḵal?’
5. “Waters encompassed me, unto life, the deep closed around me, weeds were wrapped around my head.