YONAH 2
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Now Hashem had prepared a dag gadol (great fish) to swallow up Yonah. And Yonah was in the belly of the dag shloshah yamim and shloshah leilot (three days and three nights).
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Then Yonah davened unto Hashem Elohav from out of the dagʼs belly,
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And said, I cried by reason of mine tzoros unto Hashem, He heard me; out of the belly of Sheol cried I, and Thou heardest my voice.
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For Thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the yamim (seas); and the current swirled about me; all Thy billows and Thy waves passed over me.
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Then I said: I am cast out of Thy sight; yet I will look again toward Thy Heikhal Kodesh.
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The mayim compassed me about, even to the nefesh; the depth closed me round about, the seaweed were wrapped about my head.
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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; ha'aretz with her bars closed behind me l'olam; yet hast Thou brought up my life from shachat (corruption), Hashem Elohai.
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Notes
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See Ps 16:10
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When my nefesh fainted within me, I remembered Hashem; and my tefillah came unto Thee, into Thine Heikhal Kodesh.
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They that observe lying vanities forsake their own chesed.
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But I will sacrifice unto Thee with the voice of todah; I will pay that which I have vowed. Yeshu'ah (Salvation) is from Hashem.
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And Hashem spoke unto HaDag (The Fish), and it vomited out Yonah upon the yabashah (dry land).