Jonah 2:8
Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 31:6 : 6 I hate those who regard lying vanities, But I trust in Yahweh.
- Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out 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 to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh had charged those who they should not do like them.
- 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
- Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
- Jer 10:14-15 : 14 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Jer 16:19 : 19 Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.
- Hab 2:18-20 : 18 "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols? 19 Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!"
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Ps 31:6-72 verses76%
6 I hate those who regard lying vanities, But I trust in Yahweh.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, For you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
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9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh."
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21 and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
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8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.
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5 thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
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13 Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, Yet they have spoken lies against me.
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13 He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, But whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
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17 Who forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God:
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18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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6 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
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15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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15 For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
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7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
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2 They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
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10 Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
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6 Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually.
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18 Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, On those who hope in his loving kindness;
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13 Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
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37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
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17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
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7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
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6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.
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13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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7 How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.
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27 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
- Isa 31:6-72 verses69%
6 Turn you to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
7 For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.
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4 Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is within them, And they don't know Yahweh.
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8 Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.
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6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
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13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
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11 Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
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25 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
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27 Because they turned aside from following him, And wouldn't have regard in any of his ways:
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4 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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22 "Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
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13 Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
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3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.
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3 Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.
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19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.
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8 Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, For we are in desperate need.
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10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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4 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, And doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
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22 [It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.
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18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
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25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
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15 They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh had charged those who they should not do like them.
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16 I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.
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31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness shall be his reward.