Jonah Chapter 2

Jonas is swallowed up by a great fish: he prays with confidence in God; and the fish casts him out on the dry land.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of a fish for three days and three nights. 2 And Jonas prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish. 3 And he said:

I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.
4 And thou hast cast me forth into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and a flood hast compassed me: all thy billows, and thy waves have passed over me.
5 And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I shall see the holy temple again.
6 The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.
7 I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord, my God.
8 When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto the holy temple.
9 They that in vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.
10 But I with the voice of praise will sacrifice to thee: I will pay whatsoever I have vowed for my salvation to the Lord.

11 And the Lord spoke to the fish: and it vomited out Jonas upon the dry land. Spoke to the fish... God's speaking to the fish, was nothing else but his will, which all things obey.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Et præparavit Dominus piscem grandem ut deglutiret Jonam: et erat Jonas in ventre piscis tribus diebus et tribus noctibus. 2 Et oravit Jonas ad Dominum Deum suum de ventre piscis, 3 et dixit:

Clamavi de tribulatione mea ad Dominum,
et exaudivit me;
de ventre inferi clamavi,
et exaudisti vocem meam.
4 Et projecisti me in profundum in corde maris,
et flumen circumdedit me:
omnes gurgites tui, et fluctus tui super me transierunt.
5 Et ego dixi:
Abjectus sum a conspectu oculorum tuorum;
verumtamen rursus videbo templum sanctum tuum.
6 Circumdederunt me aquæ usque ad animam:
abyssus vallavit me,
pelagus operuit caput meum.
7 Ad extrema montium descendi;
terræ vectes concluserunt me in æternum:
et sublevabis de corruptione vitam meam, Domine Deus meus.
8 Cum angustiaretur in me anima mea,
Domini recordatus sum:
ut veniat ad te oratio mea,
ad templum sanctum tuum.
9 Qui custodiunt vanitates frustra,
misericordiam suam derelinquunt.
10 Ego autem in voce laudis immolabo tibi:
quæcumque vovi, reddam pro salute Domino.

11 Et dixit Dominus pisci, et evomuit Jonam in aridam.

Transcribed as part of the Clementine Vulgate Project
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