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Jonah 2:8

FaithGod's love

6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.

10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Psalms 31:6

    I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

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  • Jeremiah 2:13

    For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

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  • 2 Kings 17:15

    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 heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

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  • 1 Samuel 12:21

    And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

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  • Jeremiah 10:8

    But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

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  • Habakkuk 2:18–20

    What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

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  • Jeremiah 16:19

    O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

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  • Jeremiah 10:14–15

    Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

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