¹约拿祷告

¹And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.

²说：“我从患难中求告耶和华，他就应允我；我从阴间的深府呼求，你就垂听我的声音。

²And 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.

³你把我投入深海，在海洋的深处，大水环绕我；你的洪涛、你的波浪，都漫过我。

³When 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.

⁴我说：‘我虽从你眼前被赶逐，我仍要仰望你的圣殿。’

⁴And I — I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

⁵众水包围我，几乎置我于死地；深渊环绕我；海草缠裹我的头。

⁵Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.

⁶我下沉直到山麓，大地的门闩把我永远关闭；耶和华我的　神啊！你却把我的性命从坑中拉上来。

⁶To 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.

⁷当我心灵疲弱时，我就思念耶和华；我的祷告直达你面前，进入你的圣殿。

⁷In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.

⁸那敬奉虚妄之偶像的人，实在是离弃了怜爱他们的　神（“怜爱他们的　神”原文作“他们的恩典”）。

⁸Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

⁹至于我，我要带着感谢的声音向你献祭；我所许的愿，我必偿还。救恩是属于耶和华的。”

⁹And I — with a voice of thanksgiving — I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation [is] of Jehovah.

¹⁰于是耶和华吩咐那鱼，鱼就把约拿吐在陆地上。

¹⁰And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.