Jonah 2

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Now Yahweh ordained that a great fish should swal ow Jonah; and Jonah remained in the bel y of thefish for three days and three nights.	1 Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
2 From the bel y of the fish, Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God; he said:	2 And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the fish.
3 Out of my distress I cried to Yahweh and he answered me, from the bel y of Sheol I cried out; you heardmy voice!	3 And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.
4 For you threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods closed round me. Al yourwaves and bil ows passed over me;	4 And thou hast cast me forth into the deep in the heart of the sea, and a flood hath compassed me: all thy billows, and thy waves have passed over me.
5 then I thought, 'I am banished from your sight; how shal I ever see your holy Temple again?'	5 And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I shall see thy holy temple again.
6 The waters round me rose to my neck, the deep was closing round me, seaweed twining round myhead.	6 The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.
7 To the roots of the mountains, I sank into the underworld, and its bars closed round me for ever. But youraised my life from the Pit, Yahweh my God!	7 I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
8 When my soul was growing ever weaker, Yahweh, I remembered you, and my prayer reached you inyour holy Temple.	8 When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto thy holy temple.
9 Some abandon their faithful love by worshipping false gods,	9 They that are vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.
10 but I shal sacrifice to you with songs of praise. The vow I have made I shall fulfil! Salvation comesfrom Yahweh!	10 But I with the voice of praise will sacrifice to thee: I will pay whatsoever I have vowed for my salvation to the Lord.
11 Yahweh spoke to the fish, which then vomited Jonah onto the dry land.	11 And the Lord spoke to the fish: and it vomited out Jonas upon the dry land.