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Jonah 2

Jonáh is in the fish belly. 3 His prayer. 12 He is delivered.
1.Then Jonáh prayed unto the Lord his God aout of the fish’s belly,
2.And said, I cryed in mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me: out of the belly bof hell cryed I, and thou heardest my voice.
3.For thou haddest cast me into the bottom in the middes of the sea, and the floods compassed me about: all thy surges, and all thy waves passed over me.
4.Then I said, I am ccast away out of thy sight: yet will I look again toward thine holy Temple.
5.The waters compassed me about unto the soul: the depth closed me round about, and the weeds were wrapt about mine head.
6.I went down to the bottom of the mountains: the earth with her bars was about me for ever, yet hast thou brought up my dlife from the pit, ô Lord my God.
7.When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came unto thee, into thine holy Temple.
8.They that wait upon lying evanities, forsake their own fmercy.
9.But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving, and will pay that that I have vowed: salvation is of the Lord.
10.And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it cast out Jonáh upon the dry land.

Notes

1-a.
Being now swallowed up of death, and seeing no remedy to escape, his faith brast out unto the Lord knowing that out of the very hell he was able to deliver him.
2-b.
For he was now in the fish’s belly as in a grave or place of darkness.
4-c.
This declared what his prayer was, and how he laboured between hope and despair, considering the neglect of his vocation and God’s judgements for the same: but yet in the end faith got the victory.
6-d.
You have delivered me from the belly of the fish and all these dangers, as it were raising me from death to life.
8-e.
They that depend upon anything save on God alone.
8-f.
They refuse their own felicity and that goodness which they should else receive of God.