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1 Now Hashem had prepared a dag gadol (great fish) to swallow up Yonah. And Yonah was in the belly of the dag shloshah yamim and shloshah leilot (three days and three nights). 2 Then Yonah davened unto Hashem Elohav from out of the dagʼs belly, 3 And said,
I cried by reason of mine tzoros unto Hashem,
He heard me;
out of the belly of Sheol cried I,
and Thou heardest my voice.
4 For Thou hadst cast me into the deep,
in the midst of the yamim (seas);
and the current swirled about me;
all Thy billows and Thy waves
passed over me.
5 Then I said:
I am cast out of Thy sight;
yet I will look again
toward Thy Heikhal Kodesh.
6 The mayim compassed me about, even to the nefesh;
the depth closed me round about,
the seaweed were wrapped about my head.
7 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;
ha'aretz with her bars closed behind me l'olam;
yet hast Thou brought up my life from shachat (corruption),*
Hashem Elohai.
8 When my nefesh fainted within me,
I remembered Hashem;
and my tefillah came unto Thee,
into Thine Heikhal Kodesh.
9 They that observe lying vanities
forsake their own chesed.
10 But I will sacrifice unto Thee
with the voice of todah;
I will pay that which I have vowed.
Yeshu'ah (Salvation) is from Hashem.
11 And Hashem spoke unto HaDag (The Fish), and it vomited out Yonah upon the yabashah (dry land).
* 2:7 See Ps 16:10