World English Bible
"I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'"
— Jonah 2:4, World English 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 thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see 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.”
Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.
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.
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.
I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'
The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
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.
"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.