Jonah 2:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

They that observe lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Those who pay regard to false, useless, and worthless idols forsake their own [Source of] mercy and loving-kindness.

American Standard Version (1901)

They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

Common English Bible

Those deceived by worthless things lose their chance for mercy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

When my soul was in anguish within me, I called to mind the Lord, so that my prayer might come to you, to your holy temple.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto thy holy temple.

Jonah 2:8 Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and the warnings which he gave them. They went after false idols, and became false, and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.

Psalm 142:4

I look to the right and watch, but there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me, no man cares for me.

Psalm 31:6

Thou hatest those who pay regard to vain idols; but I trust in the Lord.

Psalm 69:14

rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited naught but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 2:13

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

Micah 1:2

Hear, you peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that is in it; and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

1 Samuel 12:21

and do not turn aside after vain things which cannot profit or save, for they are vain.