Holy Scripture
Jonah 2:6
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“Jonah fulfilled a type of our Savior when he prayed from the belly of the fish and said, "I cried for help from the midst of the netherworld." He was in fact in the fish, yet he says that he is in the netherworld. In a later verse he manifestly prophesies in the person of Christ: "My head went down into the chasms of…”
Source: Septuagint
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6Water was poured around me to the soul: The lowest deep compassed me, My head went down
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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.
5And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: Shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple?
— Jonah 2:6 —
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.
8When my soul was failing me, I remembered the Lord; And may my prayer come to thee into thy holy temple.