1 And Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the belly of the fish 2 and said,
"I called from my distressLiterally "from distress for me" to Yahweh,
and he answered me;
from the belly of Sheol"Sheol" is a Hebrew term for the place where the dead reside (i.e. the Underworld) I cried for help—
you heard my voice.