Jonah 2:8

God, you are good to your people, and you keep your promises. But some people don’t respect you, and they turn away from you. Those people show respect to things they think are gods that have no power. So those people will miss out on the good things that you do for your people.

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In The King James Version

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

In Context

7My life was finishing up, and I called out to you my God. My prayer went up to you, to your special place where you live.

9But God, I will sing to you to say thank you. And I will kill animals to give them to you, to show respect to you. I promise I will do that. You are the only one that saves people.”

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Matthew Henry on Jonah 2:2-10

Jonah's Prayer; The Prophet in the Fish's Belly. ( b. c. 840.) 1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord , and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. 5 The… Read the whole commentary →

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