They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. Treasury of Scripture 1 Samuel 12:21 And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. 2 Kings 17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them... Psalm 31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns... Jeremiah 10:8,14,15 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities... Jeremiah 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to you from the ends of the earth... Habakkuk 2:18-20 What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies...
Context Jonah's Prayer
1Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, 2And said, I cried by reason of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice. 3For you had cast me into the deep, in the middle of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all your billows and your waves passed over me. 4Then I said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple. 5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. 6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. 7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy temple. 8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. 9But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD. 10And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
Douay-Rheims Bible
They that are vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.
Darby Bible Translation
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
King James Bible
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Young's Literal Translation
Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
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