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Jonah 2:8

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They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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  1. Psalms 31:6Rank 1 from verse 8
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    6I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.

  2. 2 Kings 17:15Rank 2 from verse 8
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    15And 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 heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

  3. Jeremiah 2:13Rank 3 from verse 8
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    13For 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.

  4. 1 Samuel 12:21Rank 4 from verse 8
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    21And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

  5. Jeremiah 10:8Rank 5 from verse 8
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    8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

  6. Habakkuk 2:18–20Rank 6 from verse 8
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    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?

    19Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

    20But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

  7. Jeremiah 10:14–15Rank 7 from verse 8
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    14Every 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.

    15They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  8. Jeremiah 16:19Rank 8 from verse 8
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    19O 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, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

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Jonah 2:8

COMBINED MEANING

observe

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Sense 1: To watch, notice, behold, or take heed of. Sense 2: To keep, carefully perform, or comply with.

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COMBINED MEANING

lying

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1. Reclining, resting, remaining, or being situated in a place. 2. Speaking or representing what is false or deceptive. 3. Lying with a person; having sexual intercourse.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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forsake

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To leave, abandon, desert, reject, renounce, cease following, or withdraw from a person, place, way, command, duty, affection, or former course.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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mercy

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Compassion or pity shown to the distressed or guilty; kindness that withholds deserved harm.

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2:7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

2:8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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2:9But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.

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