⁵ The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

⁷ "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

⁸ Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

⁹ But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh."

¹⁰ Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.