English Bible Presentation Sharing - Jonah Book, chapter 2, verse 1 in Ylt Version

Jonah 2 : 1 (YLT)

And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.

Jonah 2 : 2 (YLT)

And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

Jonah 2 : 3 (YLT)

When Thou dost cast me *into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

Jonah 2 : 4 (YLT)

And I -- I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

Jonah 2 : 5 (YLT)

Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.

Jonah 2 : 6 (YLT)

To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars *are behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.

Jonah 2 : 7 (YLT)

In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

Jonah 2 : 8 (YLT)

Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

Jonah 2 : 9 (YLT)

And I -- with a voice of thanksgiving -- I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation *is of Jehovah.

Jonah 2 : 10 (YLT)

And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.