King James Version (KJV)
Jonah 2:8
“They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”
Verse in context — Jonah 2
6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
7
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9
But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay [that] that I have vowed. Salvation [is] of the LORD.
10
And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry [land].
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