Jonah 2:8

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

They despised and rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings to them, and they followed vanity (false gods–falsehood, emptiness, and futility) and [they themselves and their prayers] became false (empty and futile). They went after the heathen round about them, of whom the Lord had charged them that they should not do as they did.

Psalm 142:4

Look on the right hand [the point of attack] and see; for there is no man who knows me [to appear for me]. Refuge has failed me and I have no way to flee; no man cares for my life or my welfare.

Psalm 31:6

[You and] I abhor those who pay regard to vain idols; but I trust in, rely on, and confidently lean on the Lord.

Psalm 69:14

Rescue me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me and from out of the deep waters.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether irrational and stupid and foolish. Their instruction is given by idols who are but wood [it is a teaching of falsity, emptiness, futility]!

Jeremiah 16:19

[Then said Jeremiah] O Lord, 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, Surely our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, emptiness, and futility, 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 they have hewn for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns which cannot hold water.

Micah 1:2

Hear, all you people; listen closely, O earth and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be witness among you and against you, the Lord from His holy temple. [I Kings 22:28.]

1 Samuel 12:21

And turn not aside after vain and worthless things which cannot profit or deliver you, for they are empty and futile.