Jonah 2:8

In 11 translations

BSB

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.

KJV

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

WEB

Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.

ASV

They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

LSV

Those observing lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

YLT

Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

DBY

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

DRC2:9

They that are vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.

GNV

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

JPS2:9

They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

LXXE2:9

They that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.Gr. vain and false things.

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WLC2:9

מְשַׁמְּרִ֖ים הַבְלֵי־שָׁ֑וְא חַסְדָּ֖ם יַעֲזֹֽבוּ׃KJV:Jonah.2.8

LXX-Br2:9

Φυλασσόμενοι μάταια καὶ ψευδῆ, ἔλεος αὐτῶν ἐγκατέλιπον.

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• Jonah and the great fish Jonah flees God's call to Nineveh; thrown overboard, he is swallowed by a great fish and returned to land. Sent again, he warns the city; it…

Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 31:6I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
• 2 Kings 17:15They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations…
• Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
• 1 Samuel 12:21Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
• Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
• Habakkuk 2:18–20What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent…
• Jeremiah 16:19O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit…
• Jeremiah 10:14–15Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of…

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