Jonah 2:8

King James Version 1611 (Original)

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 31:6 : 6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
  • Jer 2:13 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 17:15 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
  • Jer 10:14-15 : 14 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. 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
  • Jer 16:19 : 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.
  • Hab 2:18-20 : 18 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? 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. 20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

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