1 Now Hashem had prepared a dag gadol (great fish) to swallow up Yonah. And Yonah was in the belly of the dag shloshah yamim and shloshah leilot (three days and three nights). 2 Then Yonah davened unto Hashem Elohav from out of the dagʼs belly, 3 And said,

I cried by reason of mine tzoros unto Hashem,

He heard me;

out of the belly of Sheol cried I,

and Thou heardest my voice.

4 For Thou hadst cast me into the deep,

in the midst of the yamim (seas);

and the current swirled about me;

all Thy billows and Thy waves

passed over me.

5 Then I said:

I am cast out of Thy sight;

yet I will look again

toward Thy Heikhal Kodesh.

6 The mayim compassed me about, even to the nefesh;

the depth closed me round about,

the seaweed were wrapped about my head.

7 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;

ha'aretz with her bars closed behind me l'olam;

yet hast Thou brought up my life from shachat (corruption),*

Hashem Elohai.

8 When my nefesh fainted within me,

I remembered Hashem;

and my tefillah came unto Thee,

into Thine Heikhal Kodesh.

9 They that observe lying vanities

forsake their own chesed.

10 But I will sacrifice unto Thee

with the voice of todah;

I will pay that which I have vowed.

Yeshu'ah (Salvation) is from Hashem.

11 And Hashem spoke unto HaDag (The Fish), and it vomited out Yonah upon the yabashah (dry land).