Seeking those far From god

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.’
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.

7 “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh.
    My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving.
    I will pay that which I have vowed.
Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

10 Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.