Jonah 2:8

New International Version

“Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.

Cross References

Psalm 31:6

I hate those who cling to worthless idols; as for me, I trust in the Lord.

Jeremiah 2:13

“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”

Jeremiah 10:8

They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless.

Jeremiah 16:19

Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good.

Psalm 69:14

Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.

Psalm 142:4

Look and see, there is no one at my right hand; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life.

Micah 1:2

Hear, you peoples, all of you, listen, earth and all who live in it, that the Sovereign Lord may bear witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.