NET Bible
"I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple!"
— Jonah 2:4, NET Bible
“Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.”
“And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. ”
“I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'”
“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.”
“And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?”
“Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.”
Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the stomach of the fish
and said,“I called out to the LORD from my distress, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help, and you heard my prayer.
You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.
I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple!
Water engulfed me up to my neck; the deep ocean surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O LORD, my God.
When my life was ebbing away, I called out to the LORD. And my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.