Jonah 2:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Those who worship vain idols forsake their true loyalty. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They that observe lying vanities Forsake their own mercy. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Those who pay regard to false, useless, and worthless idols forsake their own [Source of] mercy and loving-kindness. American Standard Version (1901) They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy. Common English Bible Those deceived by worthless things lose their chance for mercy. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto thy holy temple. |
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.
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.
You hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.
rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!
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.
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.
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.
and do not turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or save, for they are useless.