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Jonas 2

Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation

1 Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.

2 And Jonas prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish.

3 And he said: I cried out of my affliction to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and thou hast heard my voice.

4 And thou hast cast me forth into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and a flood hath compassed me: all thy billows, and thy waves have passed over me.

5 And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of thy eyes: but yet I shall see thy holy temple again.

6 The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.

7 I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord, my God.

8 When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto thy holy temple.

9 They that in vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.

10 But I with the voice of praise will sacrifice to thee: I will pay whatsoever I have vowed for my salvation to the Lord.

11 And the Lord spoke to the fish: and it vomited out Jonas upon the dry land.

This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church

Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text. The Catechism uses modern verse numbers, so these are listed by chapter.

  1. Jonas 2:1 in modern BiblesCCC 627
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    • CCC 627 “Christ's death was a real death in that it put an end to his earthly human existence. But because of the union…”
  2. Jonas 2:2 in modern Bibles
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    • “… unhoped-for salvation from God, might rise from the dead, and glorify God, and repeat that word which was uttered in prophecy by Jonah: "I cried by reason of mine affliction to the Lord my God, and He heard me out of the belly of hell;”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XX. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  3. Jonas 2:3 in modern BiblesCCC 2585
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    • CCC 2585 “From the time of David to the coming of the Messiah texts appearing in these sacred books show a deepening in prayer…”
  4. Jonas 2:4 in modern BiblesCCC 2585
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    • CCC 2585 “From the time of David to the coming of the Messiah texts appearing in these sacred books show a deepening in prayer…”
  5. Jonas 2:5 in modern BiblesCCC 2585
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    • CCC 2585 “From the time of David to the coming of the Messiah texts appearing in these sacred books show a deepening in prayer…”
  6. Jonas 2:6 in modern BiblesCCC 2585
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    • CCC 2585 “From the time of David to the coming of the Messiah texts appearing in these sacred books show a deepening in prayer…”
  7. Jonas 2:7 in modern BiblesCCC 2585
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    • CCC 2585 “From the time of David to the coming of the Messiah texts appearing in these sacred books show a deepening in prayer…”
  8. Jonas 2:8 in modern BiblesCCC 2585
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    • CCC 2585 “From the time of David to the coming of the Messiah texts appearing in these sacred books show a deepening in prayer…”
  9. Jonas 2:9 in modern BiblesCCC 2585
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    • CCC 2585 “From the time of David to the coming of the Messiah texts appearing in these sacred books show a deepening in prayer…”
  10. Jonas 2:10 in modern BiblesCCC 2585
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    • CCC 2585 “From the time of David to the coming of the Messiah texts appearing in these sacred books show a deepening in prayer…”
  11. Jonas 2:11 in modern Bibles
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    • “… 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 command of God again thrown out safe upon the land.”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter V. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

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