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 1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,

 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, *and* thou heardest my voice.**

 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.*

 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

 5 The waters compassed me about, *even* to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars *was* about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.**

 7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

 9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay *that* that I have vowed. Salvation *is* of the LORD.

 10 ¶ And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry *land*.
 
[Jonah 1](/study/jonah/1) [Jonah 3](/study/jonah/3)

## Commentary

 To verse 1
 
***[Jonah 2:1](/kjv/jonah/2/1)*****.*****Then Jonah prayed,*****&c.—** The following prayer was conceived and formed, as to substance, in the belly of the fish, and probably afterwards digested and written in its present mode; a thanksgiving for his deliverance being added at the end of it. Houbigant very properly reads the verbs in the following verse in the present tense, because, says he, Jonah is said to pray when in the belly of the fish. By the *belly of hell,*is meant the lowest parts of the deep, or place which was to Jonah as the grave.

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