Jonah 2:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.”
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BSBPD
“Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Jonah 2:8 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 12:21Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
- 2 Kings 17:15They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
- Psalms 31:6I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
- Psalms 69:14Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
- Psalms 142:4Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
- Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
- Jeremiah 10:14Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 16:19O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.
- Micah 1:2Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
- Habakkuk 2:18What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
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