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.

So he prayed unto Yahweh, and said - Ah now! Yahweh! Was not, this, my word, while I was yet upon mine own soil? For this cause, did I hasten to flee unto Tarshish, - because I knew that, thou, art a GOD of favour and compassion, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and art grieved over calamity.