A Psalm of Thanksgiving
1Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish,2saying,
“I called to the Lord out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.3You cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows
passed over me.4Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
how shall I look again
upon your holy temple?’5The waters closed in over me;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped around my head6at 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.7As my life was ebbing away,
I remembered the Lord;
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.8Those who worship vain idols
forsake their true loyalty.9But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Deliverance belongs to the Lord!”10Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it spewed Jonah out upon the dry land.