Jonah 2:8 - Tree of Life Version As my soul was fading from me, I remembered Adonai and my prayer came to You, toward Your holy Temple. 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. |
So they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them. Instead they went after futile things and became futile, following the nations that surrounded them, about whom Adonai had charged them not to emulate.
When my spirit grows faint within me, You know my path. In the way where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
Into Your hand I commit my spirit. You have redeemed me, Adonai, God of truth.
But as for me, my prayer to You, Adonai, is for a time of favor. O God, in Your great love, answer me with the truth of Your salvation.
They are totally stupid and foolish. Discipline is useless—it’s wood!
Adonai, my strength, my stronghold, my refuge in the day of affliction, to You will the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, futility and useless things.”
“My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me —the spring of living water— and they dug their own cisterns— cracked cisterns that hold no water.
Hear, O peoples—all of you! Attention, O land and everything in it! Adonai Elohim will be witness against you— The Lord from His holy Temple.
Do not turn aside to go after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are futile.