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Jonah 2:8

Jonah chapter 2 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

Context

v.7When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.

v.8This passage

v.9But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Habakkuk 2:18

    What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he that fashioneth its form trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

  • Jeremiah 10:14

    Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

  • 1 Samuel 12:21

    and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

  • 2 Kings 17:15

    And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

  • Jeremiah 2:13

    For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

  • Psalms 31:6

    I hate them that regard lying vanities; But I trust in Jehovah.