The View From Rock Bottom

Jonah 2:1–6

Jonah’s Prayer

1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,

  “I called out to the LORD, out of my distress,
    and he answered me;
  out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
    and you heard my voice.
3   For you cast me into the deep,
    into the heart of the seas,
    and the flood surrounded me;
  all your breakers and your waves
    passed over me.
4   Then I said, ‘I am driven away
    from your sight;
  yet I shall again look
    upon your holy temple.’
5   The waters closed in over me to take my life;
    the deep surrounded me;
  weeds were wrapped about my head.
6   To the roots of the mountains I went down,
    to the land whose bars closed upon me forever.
  Yet you brought up my life from the pit,
    O LORD my God.

(ESV)