Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Jonah 1
¹³ Nevertheless the men rowed hard to return to land, but they could not, for the sea continued to grow more tempestuous against them.
¹⁴ Therefore they cried out to the Lord and said, "We pray, O Lord, please do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not charge us with innocent blood; for You, O Lord, have done as it pleased You."
¹⁵ So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.
¹⁶ Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the Lord and took vows.
¹⁷ Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah 2
¹ Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly.
² And he said: "I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, And He answered me. "Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice.
³ For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
⁴ Then I said, ’I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’
⁵ The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head.
⁶ I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God.