Scripture-Based Prayers
Jonah's Prayer from the Depths
Prayed from inside the great fish (Jonah 2:2–9), this is Scripture's clearest prayer of someone who ran from God and was rescued anyway.
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.
The waters surrounded me, even to the soul.
The deep was around me.
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.
Salvation belongs to the Lord!
Jonah 2:2-9 (World English Bible, public domain)
About the prayer
Jesus points to Jonah's three days as a sign of his own burial and resurrection, and the Church has long prayed this text at the Easter Vigil and in seasons of repentance.
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