#  The Lord who Hears Prayer

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#  Scripture

Jonah 1:17-2:10

English Standard Version

### A Great Fish Swallows Jonah

17 \[[a](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+1%3A17-2%3A10&version=ESV#fen-ESV-22549a "See footnote a")\] And the Lord appointed\[[b](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+1%3A17-2%3A10&version=ESV#fen-ESV-22549b "See footnote b")\] a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

### Jonah's Prayer

2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,

“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
 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 flood surrounded me;
all your waves and your billows
 passed over me.
4 Then I said, ‘I am driven away
 from your sight;
yet I shall again look
 upon your holy temple.’
5 The waters closed in over me to take my life;
 the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
6  at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
 whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
 O Lord my God.
7 When my life was fainting away,
 I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you,
 into your holy temple.
8 Those who pay regard to vain idols
 forsake their hope of steadfast love.
9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving
 will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
 Salvation belongs to the Lord!”

10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.