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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_033_JON_02_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_033_JON_02_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19d8c1c --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_033_JON_02_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Jonah. +Chapter 2. +Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said, +In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice. +For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me. +And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple? +The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head. +I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God. +When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple. +The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope. +But I will make an offering to you with the voice of praise; I will give effect to my oaths. Salvation is the Lord's. +And at the Lord's order, the fish sent Jonah out of its mouth on to the dry land. |