The ribs and terrors in the whale
Arched over me a dismal doom
While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by

And lift me deepening down to doom

I saw the opening maw of hell

With endless pains and sorrows there
Elich none but they that feel can tell
Oh I was plunging to despair


In black distress
I called my God

When I could scarce believe him mine
He bowed his ears to my complaint
No more the whale did me confine


With speed he flew to my relief
As on a radiant dolphin borne

Awful, yet bright, as lightning shone
The face of my deliverer God


My song forever shall record
That terrible, that joyful hour
I give the glory to my God

His all the mercy and the power