8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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8 They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
8 Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
8 When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
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.
And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
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.
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? 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. But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
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Commentary on Jonah 2 Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
“Jonah prayed to Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly.”