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# I called out to Yahweh about my distress and he answered me
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"Yahweh, I called out to you about my trouble and you answered me"
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# answered me
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"responded to me" or "helped me"
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# from the belly of Sheol
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"from the center of Sheol" or "from the deep part of the place for dead people." Possible meanings are 1) Jonah was speaking as being in the fish was like being in Sheol or 2) Jonah believed that he was about to die and go to Sheol or 3) He spoke as if he already had died and gone there.
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