Jonah 2:8
They give attention to useless gods 1 while they forsake loving faithfulness. 1
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In The King James Version
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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2 Kings 17:15They rejected his statutes and the covenant that he had made with their ancestors, and the covenant decrees that he had given to them. They followed useless practices and they themselves became useless. They followed the pagan nations who were around them, those that Yahweh had commanded them not to imitate.
Psalms 69:14Pull me out of the mire, and do not let me sink; 1 let me be taken away from those who hate me and rescued out of the deep waters. 1
Jeremiah 2:13For my people have committed two evils against me: They have abandoned the springs of living waters, 1 and they have dug out cisterns for themselves, 1 broken cisterns that cannot hold water. 1
Jeremiah 10:14Every man has become ignorant, without knowledge. Every metalworker is put to shame by his idols. 1 For his cast images are frauds; there is no life in them. 1
Micah 1:2Listen, all you peoples. 1 Listen, earth, and all that is in you. 1 Let the Lord Yahweh be a witness against you, 1 the Lord from his holy temple. 1
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 →