Jonah's Prayer
1 From deep inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God:
2 “In my distress, O Lord, I called to you,
and you answered me.
From deep in the world of the dead
I cried for help, and you heard me.
3 You threw me down into the depths,
to the very bottom of the sea,
where the waters were all around me,
and all your mighty waves rolled over me.
4 I thought I had been banished from your presence
and would never see your holy Temple again.
5 The water came over me and choked me;
the sea covered me completely,
and seaweed wrapped around my head.
6 I went down to the very roots of the mountains,
into the land whose gates lock shut forever.
But you, O Lord my God,
brought me back from the depths alive.
7 When I felt my life slipping away,
then, O Lord, I prayed to you,
and in your holy Temple you heard me.
8 Those who worship worthless idols
have abandoned their loyalty to you.
9 But I will sing praises to you;
I will offer you a sacrifice
and do what I have promised.
Salvation comes from the Lord!”
10 Then the Lord ordered the fish to spit Jonah up on the beach, and it did.
Yunusa la duwaa
1 Kabiriŋ Yunusa be ñewo kono, a ye Yaawe* daani, a la Alla.
2 A ko:
“N na bataa kaŋ ŋa ite Yaawe kumandi le,
aduŋ i ye n danku le.
Ka bo kaburu dinkoolu to, ŋa i la maakoyiroo daani,
aduŋ i ye n kalamuta le.
3 I ye m fayi diinoŋo le to, ka taa fo baa duumoo to,
daameŋ jiyo be m baloo karoo bee la,
aduŋ i la baa baliŋo semboo bee ka naa n kaŋ ne.
4 Ŋa a miira le nuŋ ko, n yeemanta i la karoo la le.
Bari hani wo, m be i la buŋ senuŋo je la le kotenke.
5 Jiyo naata n kaŋ, aduŋ a maranta,
diinoŋo ye m muru karoo bee la.
Baato ñaamoo ye n kuŋo bee muura.
6 N taata fo baa duumoo to,
n dunta banku le to, meŋ bundaalu ka tu sorondiŋ fo abadaa.
Bari ite, hee Yaawe m Maariyo
i ye m bondi naŋ ñiŋ diinoŋo to le, m baluuta.
7 Kabiriŋ ŋa a loŋ ko, n na duniyaa ka naa baŋ ne,
n hakiloo bulata i la ŋa i daani,
aduŋ n na duwaa futata i ma le, i la buŋ senuŋo kono.
8 Moolu mennu ka jalaŋ nafantaŋolu batu,
wolu ye ì koo dii hiinoo la le,
meŋ ñanta ke la ì taa ti.
9 Bari m be sadaa* bo la i ye le,
ŋa i jayiraŋ suukuwo laa,
aduŋ ŋa n kali meŋ na, m be wo ke la le.
Kiisoo bota naŋ Yaawe le yaa.”
10 Bituŋ Yaawe ye ñewo yaamari, aduŋ a ye Yunusa foonoo naŋ banku jaaroo kaŋ.
