Out Of The Belly Of Hell — Selah Sound Collective (Jonah 2)

Verse 1 I bought my passage with a borrowed name, I turned my shoulder from the word. The wind came looking and it knew my shame, and every prayer but mine was heard. They cast the lot and the lot fell true, they raised me like a sheaf of grain. And I opened. And I took him in. And the deck went quiet in the rain.

Chorus Out of the belly of hell I cried, and Thou didst hear my voice. Under the roots of the world I cried, and Thou didst hear my voice. (No lantern, no window, no bell, no light) nothing of mine but my voice. And Thou didst hear my voice.

Verse 2 I put my billows and my waves on you, I closed my floods on every side. I wrapped the weeds about your head in the green and patient dark of the tide. I carried you to the mountains' roots, I set the bars of the earth in place. Cast out of Thy sight. And yet. And yet. I will look again toward Thy holy temple.

Chorus Out of the belly of hell I cried, and Thou didst hear my voice. Under the roots of the world I cried, and Thou didst hear my voice. And Thou didst hear my voice.

Bridge When my soul fainted in me, I remembered. I felt it. A lamp lit under water. Not a creed. Not a name. I remembered. I was told to hold you. Not to keep you. They that run after lying vanities forsake the mercy of their own two hands. I was never mine. I was only sent. So was the wind. So was the wave. So was I.

Chorus Out of the belly of hell I cried, and Thou hast heard my voice. Out of the grave of the world I cried, and Thou hast heard my voice. What I vowed in the dark I will pay in the light. He has heard your voice. Thou hast heard my voice.

Outro He spake to the fish, and I let go. The morning was a plain grey shore. The road runs east. I mean to walk it. Salvation is of the LORD.