Skip to main content

Jonah 2:8

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

KJV

Cum angustiaretur in me anima mea, Domini recordatus sum : ut veniat ad te oratio mea, ad templum sanctum tuum.

Vulgate

ἐν τῷ ἐκλιπεῖν ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ τὴν ψυχήν μου τοῦ κυρίου ἐμνήσθην, καὶ ἔλθοι πρὸς σὲ ἡ εὐχή μου εἰς ναὸν ἅγιόν σου.

LXX

They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

ASV

בְּ/הִתְעַטֵּ֤ף עָלַ/י֙ נַפְשִׁ֔/י אֶת יְהוָ֖ה זָכָ֑רְתִּי וַ/תָּב֤וֹא אֵלֶ֨י/ךָ֙ תְּפִלָּתִ֔/י אֶל הֵיכַ֖ל קָדְשֶֽׁ/ךָ

Hebrew

Open in reader with connections →

In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
הֵיכַ֣ל
hykl
noun · 79×
הַעֲטִ֥יף
h'typ
verb · 15×
זְכָר
zkr
verb · 231×
י
y
noun · 752×
י
y
noun · 77×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
קֹּ֑דֶשׁ
qdsh
noun · 463×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2585From the time of David to the coming of the Messiah texts appearing in these sacred books show a deepening in prayer for oneself and in prayer for others.37 Thus the psalms were gradually collected into the five books of the Psalter (or "Praises"), the masterwork of prayer in the Old Testament.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 12:21 — And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
  • 1Sam 12:21 — And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
  • 2Kgs 1:3 — But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enqu
  • 2Kgs 17:15 — And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the hea
  • Acts 14:15 — And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and
  • Deut 32:21 — They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them t
  • Hab 2:18 — What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
  • Hab 2:18 — What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
  • Isa 28:15 — Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refug
  • Isa 50:11 — Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down
  • Jer 2:5 — Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
  • Jer 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
  • Jer 10:8 — But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
  • Jer 10:14 — Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
  • Jer 10:15 — They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
  • Jer 16:19 — O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanit
  • Job 15:31 — Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
  • Judg 10:13 — Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.
  • Ps 4:2 — O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
  • Ps 16:4 — Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
  • Ps 31:6 — I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
  • Ps 31:6 — I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
  • Ps 40:4 — Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
  • Ps 115:8 — They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
  • Ps 119:29 — Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.