Jonah 2:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

They that waite vpon lying vanities, forsake their owne mercie.

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  • Ps 31:6 : 6 I haue hated them that giue them selues to deceitfull vanities: for I trust in the Lord.
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people haue committed two euils: they haue forsaken mee the fountaine of liuing waters, to digge them pittes, euen broken pittes, that can holde no water.
  • 2 Kgs 17:15 : 15 And they refused his statutes and his couenant, that he made with their fathers, & his testimonies (wherewith he witnessed vnto them) and they followed vanitie, and became vaine, and followed the heathen that were round about them: concerning whome the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.
  • 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 Neither turne yee backe: for that shoulde be after vaine things which cannot profite you, nor deliuer you, for they are but vanitie)
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But, altogether they dote, and are foolish: for the stocke is a doctrine of vanitie.
  • Jer 10:14-15 : 14 Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein. 15 They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
  • Jer 16:19 : 19 O Lord, thou art my force, & my strength & my refuge in the day of affliction: the Gentiles shal come vnto thee from the ends of the world, & shal say, Surely our fathers haue inherited lies, and vanitie, wherein was no profite.
  • Hab 2:18-20 : 18 What profiteth the image? for the maker thereof hath made it an image, and a teacher of lies, though he that made it, trust therein, when he maketh dumme idoles. 19 Wo vnto him that sayth to the wood, Awake, and to the dumme stone, Rise vp, it shall teach thee: beholde, it is layde ouer with golde and siluer, and there is no breath in it. 20 But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.

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    6 I haue hated them that giue them selues to deceitfull vanities: for I trust in the Lord.

    7 I wil be glad and reioyce in thy mercie: for thou hast seene my trouble: thou hast knowen my soule in aduersities,

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    9 But I will sacrifice vnto thee with the voice of thankesgiuing, and will pay that that I haue vowed: saluation is of the Lorde.

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    21 Neither turne yee backe: for that shoulde be after vaine things which cannot profite you, nor deliuer you, for they are but vanitie)

  • Jer 7:8
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    8 Beholde, you trust in lying woordes, that can not profite.

  • Jer 2:5
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    5 Thus sayeth the Lord, What iniquitie haue your fathers founde in mee, that they are gone farre from mee, and haue walked after vanitie, and are become vaine?

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    13 He that hideth his sinnes, shall not prosper: but he that confesseth, and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy.

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    17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.

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    18 They are vanitie, and the worke of errors: in the time of their visitation they shal perish.

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    6 By mercy and trueth iniquitie shalbe forgiuen, and by the feare of the Lorde they depart from euill.

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    15 They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • Jer 18:15
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    15 Because my people hath forgotten me, and haue burnt incense to vanitie, and their prophets haue caused them to stumble in their wayes from the auncient wayes, to walke in the pathes and way that is not troden,

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    7 When my soule fainted within me, I remembred the Lorde: and my prayer came vnto thee, into thine holy Temple.

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    2 And they consider not in their hearts, that I remember all their wickednes: now their owne inuentions haue beset them about: they are in my sight.

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    10 Thus saith the Lord vnto this people, Thus haue they delited to wander: they haue not refrained their feete, therefore the Lorde hath no delight in them: but he will now remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes.

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    6 Therefore turne thou to thy God: keepe mercy and iudgement, and hope still in thy God.

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    18 Beholde, the eye of the Lorde is vpon them that feare him, and vpon them, that trust in his mercie,

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    13 And the Lorde sayeth, Because they haue forsaken my Lawe, which I set before them, and haue not obeyed my voice, neither walked thereafter,

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    37 Turne away mine eies from regarding vanitie, and quicken me in thy way.

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    17 Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:

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    7 Let the wicked forsake his wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations, and returne vnto the Lord, and he wil haue mercy vpon him: and to our God, for hee is very ready to forgiue.

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    6 Thine habitation is in the middes of deceiuers: because of their deceit they refuse to know me, sayth the Lord.

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    7 Howe should I spare thee for this? Thy children haue forsaken me, and sworne by them that are no gods: though I fed them to the full, yet they committed adulterie, and assembled them selues by companies in the harlots houses.

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    27 For loe, they that withdrawe themselues from thee, shall perish: thou destroyest all them that goe a whoring from thee.

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    6 O ye children of Israel, turne againe, in as much as ye are sunken deepe in rebellion.

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    4 They will not giue their mindes to turne vnto their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the middes of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord.

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    13 For my people haue committed two euils: they haue forsaken mee the fountaine of liuing waters, to digge them pittes, euen broken pittes, that can holde no water.

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    25 This is thy portion, and ye part of thy measures from me, sayth the Lorde, because thou hast forgotten me and trusted in lyes.

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    27 Because they haue turned backe from him, and would not consider all his wayes:

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    22 Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, & there be none that can deliuer you.

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    3 And they bende their tongues like their bowes for lyes: but they haue no courage for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceede from euill to worse, and they haue not knowen mee, sayth the Lord.

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    31 He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change.