Flood waters encompassed me, the deep surrounded me while seaweed wrapped around my head.

“While I was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
And my prayer came to You,
Into Your holy temple.

and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, 'I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land -- therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish -- that I have known that Thou art a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?