Jonah 2:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

Psalm 142:4

Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

Psalm 31:6

I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.

Psalm 69:14

Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

Micah 1:2

Give ear, you peoples, all of you; give attention, O earth and everything in it: let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy Temple.

1 Samuel 12:21

And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.