World English Bible
Jonah 2:4
“I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.”
Verse in context — 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.
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.
5
The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
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