🐋WEB · Jonah 2:8
What does Jonah 2:8 mean?
"Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy."
— Jonah 2:8 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”
Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
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