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Jonah 2 - Jonah's Bene

  1. Then Jonah bade to the Lord his God from the fish's belly,
  2. And said, ‘I chyed on the grounds of mine arveth to the Lord, and hy heard me; out of the belly of hell I chyed, and thou heardest my steven.
  3. ‘For thou hadst thrown me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods umbewent me: all thy waves and thy breakers awent over me.
  4. ‘Then I said, “I am outed from thy sight; yet I will look ayen towards thy holy harrow.”
  5. ‘The waters umbewent me, even to the soul: the depths shut about me, the weeds were bewoven about my head.
  6. ‘I went down to the bottoms of the barrows; the earth locked me in for ever: yet thou hast brought up my life from filing1, O Lord my God.
  7. ‘When my soul grew wan within me I brought to mind the Lord: and my bede went to thee, into thine holy harrow.
  8. ‘Hy that behold lying selfweenings forsake her own leeth.
  9. ‘But I will bloot to thee mid the steven of thanksgiving; I will yield that which I have behighted. Aleesedness is of the Lord.’
  10. And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it hurled out Jonah upon the dry land.

  1. A new word created from Anglish file 'to defile, to corrupt' + -ing '-tion, -ation, -sion'. ↩