World English Bible
Jonah 2:8
“Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”
Jonah 2:8 in the King James Version
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.Read Jonah 2:8 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Jonah 2
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.
Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
Cross references for Jonah 2:8
- Psalms 31:6
I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 17:15
They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahwe...
- Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
- 1 Samuel 12:21
Don't turn aside; for then you would go after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
- Habakkuk 2:18-20
What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols? Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute st...
- Jeremiah 16:19
Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is n...
- Jeremiah 10:14-15
Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visita...
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