Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
New American Standard Bible
Forsake their faithfulness,
King James Version
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Holman Bible
forsake faithful love,
International Standard Version
Those who cling to vain idols leave behind the gracious love that could have been theirs.
A Conservative Version
Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
American Standard Version
They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
Amplified
“Those who regard and follow worthless idols
Bible in Basic English
The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.
Darby Translation
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Julia Smith Translation
They watching the vanities of falsehood will forsake their kindness.
King James 2000
They that regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Those who worship vain idols forsake their loyal love.
Modern King James verseion
They who take heed to lying vanities forsake their kindness;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They that observe vain vanities, have forsaken him that was merciful unto them.
NET Bible
Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.
New Heart English Bible
Those who regard worthless things forsake their faithfulness.
The Emphasized Bible
They who take heed to the vanities of falsehood, do, their own lovingkindness, forsake.
Webster
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Youngs Literal Translation
Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
Interlinear
Shamar
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jonah 2:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jonah Is Swallowed By A Fish And Prays To Yahweh
7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple. 8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy. 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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Cross References
2 Kings 17:15
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 around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
Psalm 31:6
I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
Jeremiah 2:13
"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
1 Samuel 12:21
Don't turn aside; for [then you would go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
Jeremiah 10:14-15
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.
Jeremiah 16:19
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.
Habakkuk 2:18-20
"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?