القراءة بلغتين

فأَعَدَّ الرَّبُّ حوتًا عَظيمًا لِٱبتِلاعِ يونان. فكانَ يونانُ في جَوفِ الحوتِ ثَلاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ وثَلاثَ لَيالٍ

فصَلَّى يونانُ إِلى الرَّبِّ إِلٰهِه مِن جَوفِ الحوتِ

وقال: إِلى الرَّبِّ صَرَختُ في ضيقي فأَجابَني مِن جَوفِ مَثْوى الأَمواتِ ٱستَغَثتُ فسَمِعتَ صَوتي

قد طَرَحتَني في العُمْقِ في قَلبِ البِحار فالنَّهرُ أَحاطَ بي. جَميعُ مِياهِكَ وأَمواجِكَ جازَت علَيَّ

فقُلتُ: إِنِّي طُرِدتُ مِن أَمامِ عَينَيكَ لٰكِنِّي سأَعودُ أَنظُرُ هَيكَلَ قُدسِكَ

قد غَمَرَتْني المِياهُ إِلى حَلْقي وأَحاطَ بِيَ الغَمر والْتَفَّ الخَيزُرانُ حَولَ رأسي

نَزَلتُ إِلى أُصولِ الجِبال إِلى أَرضٍ أُغلِقَت علَيَّ مَزاليجُها لِلأَبَد لٰكِنَّكَ أَصعَدتَ حَياتي مِنَ الهُوَّة أَيُّها الرَّبُّ إِلٰهي

عِندَما غُشِيَ على نَفْسي تَذَكَّرتُ الرَّبَّ فبَلَغَت إِلَيكَ صلاتي إِلى هَيكَلِ قُدسِكَ

إِنَّ الَّذينَ يَعبُدونَ أَوثانَ الباطِل فلْيَكُفُّوا عن عِبادَتِهم

أَمَّا أَنا فبِصَوتِ شُكرٍ أَذبَحُ لَكَ وما نَذَرتُه أُوفي بِه. مِنَ الرَّبِّ الخَلاص!

فأَمَرَ الرَّبُّ الحوتَ، فقَذَفَ يونانَ إِلى اليابِسَة

Then Jonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to the LORD. 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 you have brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.

But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the LORD.”

Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.