Jonah 2:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own mercy.

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  • Ps 31:6 : 6 I have hated those 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 carved themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
  • 2 Kgs 17:15 : 15 They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; they followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves, and went after the nations that were around them, although the LORD had commanded them not to do like them.
  • 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 And do not turn aside: for then you should 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 wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
  • Jer 10:14-15 : 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is humiliated 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 to you from the ends of the earth and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.
  • Hab 2:18-20 : 18 What profit is the carved image that its maker has carved it; the molded image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make mute idols? 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake; to the mute stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst. 20 But the LORD is in His holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before Him.

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    6I have hated those that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

    7I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

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    9But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.

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    8Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.

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    5Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?

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    13Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

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    13He who covers his sins shall not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

  • Prov 2:17
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    17Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

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    18They are vanity, the work of errors; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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    6By mercy and truth iniquity is purged, and by the fear of the LORD one departs from evil.

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    15They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation, they shall perish.

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    7When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple.

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    18Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his mercy,

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    17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

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    6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

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