Holy Scripture
Jonah 2:4
A church father on this verse
“"Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight;" LXX: 'I said, I am cast far from your sight'. Before I cried out from the depths of my distress and before you heard me, me who had taken the position of slave and imitated its weakness, I said, "I am cast out of your sight". When I was with you enjoying your light and you, l…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4Thou didst cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: All thy billows and thy waves have passed upon me.
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In context
2And Jonah prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale,
3and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me, Even to my cry out of the belly of hell: thou heardest my voice.
— Jonah 2:4 —
5And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: Shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple?
6Water was poured around me to the soul: The lowest deep compassed me, My head went down