Jonah 2:8 - King James 2000 They that regard vain idols forsake their own mercy. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would acknowledge me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come unto you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed themselves out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Hear, all you people; hearken, O earth, and all that is in it: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.