Jonah 2:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Those who worship vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

They despised his statutes and his covenant that he had made with their ancestors and the warnings that he had given them. They went after false idols and became false; they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

Psalm 142:4

Look on my right hand and see: there is no one who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for me.

Psalm 31:6

You hate those who pay regard to worthless 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 given by idols is no better than wood!

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our ancestors have inherited nothing 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 water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.

Micah 1:2

Hear, you peoples, all of you; listen, 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 useless things that cannot profit or save, for they are useless.