Jonah 2:8
6 To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
7 As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
9 But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”
10 And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
- KJV
- They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
- WEB
- Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.
- ASV
- They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
- DARBY
- They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
- BLB
- Those guarding vanities of worthlessness leave behind their loving devotion.
- ÅB
- De som holder seg til de tomme avguder, de forlater sin miskunnhet[^1].
- OTB
- De som holder fast ved verdiløse avguder
forlater sin troskap, - B1930
- De som holder sig til de tomme avguder, de forlater sin miskunnhet. / < sin miskunnelige Gud; SLM 144, 2.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 31:6
I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
Read in context2 Kings 17:15
They 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.
Read in context1 Samuel 12:21
Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
Read in contextJeremiah 10:8
But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
Read in contextHabakkuk 2:18–20
What 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 16:19
O 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 10:14–15
Every 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.
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