Young's Literal Translation

Jonah 1

The Book of Jonah

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

 

 

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  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.  

 

 

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3


 

  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.  

 

 

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4


 

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

 

 

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5


 

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

 

 

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6


 

  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.  

 

 

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

 

 

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  Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.  

 

 

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

 

 

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10


 

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

 

 

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