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# Jonah 2

Jonah 2 is chapter 2 of 4 in the Book of Jonah. Here are all 11 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Jonas is swallowed up by a great fish: he prayeth with confidence in God; and the fish casteth him out on the dry land.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Jonah 2 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.
2. And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, from the belly of the fish.
3. And he said: “I cried out to the Lord from my tribulation, and he heeded me. From the belly of hell, I cried out, and you heeded my voice.
4. And you have thrown me into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and a flood has encircled me. All your whirlpools and your waves have passed over me.
5. And I said: I am expelled from the sight of your eyes. Yet, truly, I will see your holy temple again.
6. The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The abyss has walled me in. The ocean has covered my head.
7. I descended to the base of the mountains. The bars of the earth have enclosed me forever. And you will raise up my life from corruption, Lord, my God.
8. When my soul was in anguish within me, I called to mind the Lord, so that my prayer might come to you, to your holy temple.
9. Those who in vain observe vanities, abandon their own mercy.
10. But I, with a voice of praise, will sacrifice to you. I will repay whatever I have vowed to the Lord, because of my salvation.”
11. And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

## Jonah 2 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

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

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 11: “Spoke to the fish” … God's speaking to the fish, was nothing else but his will, which all things obey.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Oct 4, 2027 (computed): St. Francis of Assisi — First Reading, Jonah 1:1—2:1-2, 11; Responsorial Psalm, Jonah 2:3, 4, 5, 8

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).