World English Bible
Jonah 2:2
“He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.”
Verse in context — Jonah 2
1
Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.
2
He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
3
For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
4
I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.
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God’s mercy shown to Nineveh through Jonah’s reluctant mission.
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