Jonah 2:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ They that observe lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Those who pay regard to false, useless, and worthless idols forsake their own [Source of] mercy and loving-kindness.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

Common English Bible

⁸ Those deceived by worthless things lose their chance for mercy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ 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.

Jonah 2:8 Cross References

Psalm 31:6

I hate them that regard lying vanities: But I trust in the LORD.

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.

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 the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols, it is but a stock.

1 Samuel 12:21

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

Jeremiah 16:19

O LORD, my strength, and my strong hold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no profit.

Psalm 69:14

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Psalm 142:4

Look on my right hand, and see; for there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.

Micah 1:2

Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GODbe witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.