Holy Scripture
Jonah 2:5
A church father on this verse
“If, however, any one imagine it impossible that men should survive for such a length of time, and that Elias was not caught up in the flesh, but that his flesh was consumed in the fiery chariot, let him consider that Jonah, when he had been cast into the deep, and swallowed down into the whale's belly, was by the comm…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: Shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple?
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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.
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.
— Jonah 2:5 —
6Water was poured around me to the soul: The lowest deep compassed me, My head went down
7to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: Yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.