Jonah 2:8 - Modern English Version

⁸ “Those who follow vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ They that observe lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Those who pay regard to false, useless, and worthless idols forsake their own [Source of] mercy and loving-kindness.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

Common English Bible

⁸ Those deceived by worthless things lose their chance for mercy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ 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.

Jonah 2:8 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers and the decrees He had given them. They followed idols, and became idolaters, and followed the surrounding nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them, that they should not do like them.

Psalm 142:4

Look to the right and see, for there is no one who acknowledges me; there is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.

Psalm 31:6

I have hated those who regard worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.

Psalm 69:14

Deliver me out of the mire and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether unthinking and foolish; the wooden idol is worthless instruction.

Jeremiah 16:19

O  Lord, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to You from the remote parts of the earth, and will say: Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and 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 waters, and hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Micah 1:2

Hear, all you peoples! Listen, earth and everything in it, that the Sovereign Lord may be a witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.

1 Samuel 12:21

But do not turn aside, for then you would be going after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing.