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Jonah 2

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1 καὶ προσέταξεν κύριος κήτει μεγάλῳ καταπιεῖν τὸν Ιωναν καὶ ἦν Ιωνας ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ τοῦ κήτους τρεῖς ἡμέρας καὶ τρεῖς νύκτας 2 καὶ προσηύξατο Ιωνας πρὸς κύριον τὸν θεὸν αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῆς κοιλίας τοῦ κήτους 3 καὶ εἶπεν ἐβόησα ἐν θλίψει μου πρὸς κύριον τὸν θεόν μου καὶ εἰσήκουσέν μου ἐκ κοιλίας ᾅδου κραυγῆς μου ἤκουσας φωνῆς μου 4 ἀπέρριψάς με εἰς βάθη καρδίας θαλάσσης καὶ ποταμοί με ἐκύκλωσαν πάντες οἱ μετεωρισμοί σου καὶ τὰ κύματά σου ἐ{P'} ἐμὲ διῆλθον 5 καὶ ἐγὼ εἶπα ἀπῶσμαι ἐξ ὀφθαλμῶν σου ἆρα προσθήσω τοῦ ἐπιβλέψαι πρὸς τὸν ναὸν τὸν ἅγιόν σου 6 περιεχύθη ὕδωρ μοι ἕως ψυχῆς ἄβυσσος ἐκύκλωσέν με ἐσχάτη ἔδυ ἡ κεφαλή μου εἰς σχισμὰς ὀρέων 7 κατέβην εἰς γῆν ἧς οἱ μοχλοὶ αὐτῆς κάτοχοι αἰώνιοι καὶ ἀναβήτω φθορὰ ζωῆς μου κύριε ὁ θεός μου 8 ἐν τῷ ἐκλείπειν ἀ{P'} ἐμοῦ τὴν ψυχήν μου τοῦ κυρίου ἐμνήσθην καὶ ἔλθοι πρὸς σὲ ἡ προσευχή μου εἰς ναὸν ἅγιόν σου 9 φυλασσόμενοι μάταια καὶ ψευδῆ ἔλεος αὐτῶν ἐγκατέλιπον 10 ἐγὼ δὲ μετὰ φωνῆς αἰνέσεως καὶ ἐξομολογήσεως θύσω σοι ὅσα ηὐξάμην ἀποδώσω σοι σωτηρίου τῷ κυρίῳ

1 And what of Jonas? At the Lord’s bidding, a great sea-beast had swallowed him up; and there, in the belly of it, three days spent he and three nights. 2 This was the prayer which Jonas made to the Lord his God, there in the belly of the sea-beast: 3 Call I on the Lord in my peril, redress he grants me;[1] from the very womb of the grave call I, thou art listening to me! 4 Here in the depths of the sea’s heart thou wouldst cast me away, with the flood all about me, eddy of thine, wave of thine, sweeping over me, 5 till it seemed as if I were shut out from thy regard: yet life thou grantest me; I shall gaze on thy holy temple[2] once again. 6 Around me the deadly waters close, the depths engulf me, the weeds are wrapped about my head; 7 mountain caverns I must plumb, the very bars of earth my unrelenting prison; and still, O Lord my God, thou wilt raise me, living, from the tomb. 8 Daunted this heart, yet still of the Lord I would bethink me; prayer of mine should reach him, far away in his holy temple! 9 Let fools that court false worship all hope of pardon forgo; 10 mine to do sacrifice in thy honour, vows made and paid to the Lord, my deliverer!

1 Et præparavit Dominus piscem grandem ut deglutiret Jonam: et erat Jonas in ventre piscis tribus diebus et tribus noctibus. 2 Et oravit Jonas ad Dominum Deum suum de ventre piscis, 3 et dixit:

Clamavi de tribulatione mea ad Dominum,
et exaudivit me;
de ventre inferi clamavi,
et exaudisti vocem meam. 4
Et projecisti me in profundum in corde maris,
et flumen circumdedit me:
omnes gurgites tui, et fluctus tui super me transierunt. 5
Et ego dixi:
Abjectus sum a conspectu oculorum tuorum;
verumtamen rursus videbo templum sanctum tuum. 6
Circumdederunt me aquæ usque ad animam:
abyssus vallavit me,
pelagus operuit caput meum. 7
Ad extrema montium descendi;
terræ vectes concluserunt me in æternum:
et sublevabis de corruptione vitam meam, Domine Deus meus. 8
Cum angustiaretur in me anima mea,
Domini recordatus sum:
ut veniat ad te oratio mea,
ad templum sanctum tuum. 9
Qui custodiunt vanitates frustra,
misericordiam suam derelinquunt. 10
Ego autem in voce laudis immolabo tibi:
quæcumque vovi, reddam pro salute Domino.

11 καὶ προσετάγη τῷ κήτει καὶ ἐξέβαλεν τὸν Ιωναν ἐπὶ τὴν ξηράν

11 And now, at the Lord’s bidding, the sea-beast cast Jonas up again, high and dry on the beach.

11 Et dixit Dominus pisci, et evomuit Jonam in aridam.

[1] vv. 3-10: Cf. Ps. 119.1; 17.7; 41.8; 30.23; 68.2; 141.4; 142.4; 17.6; 30.7; 116.17, 18; 3.9. The occurrence of such a cento proves how complete a body of psalms was in existence at the time when this book was written.

[2] The temple here alluded to is presumably the temple at Jerusalem, although Jonas is usually regarded as belonging, not to Juda, but to the northern kingdom (IV Kg. 14.25). In verse 6, the Latin has ‘sea’ instead of ‘weeds’.

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Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
Re-typeset and published in 2012 by Baronius Press Ltd