Jonah 2:8
What meaning of the jonah 2:8 in the Bible?
What does Jonah 2:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy."
What does Jonah 2:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy."
Verse Jonah 2:8. _THEY THAT OBSERVE LYING VANITIES_] They that trust in idols, follow _vain predictions_, permit themselves to be influenced with _foolish fears_, so as to induce them to _leave the pa...
THEY THAT OBSERVE LYING VANITIES - , i. e., (by the force of the Hebrew form , that diligently watch, pay deference to, court, sue, “vanities of vanities,” vain things, which prove themselves vain at...
CHAPTER 2 Jonah's Prayer and Deliverance _ 1. The prayer (John 2:1) _ 2. The deliverance (John 2:10) John 2:1. Some expositors have called attention to the fact that the prayer is not one offered u...
THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE. This psalm is a thanksgiving for deliverance from peril, and therefore, if spoken by Jonah, should have followed Jonah 2:10. The description, however, is quite unsuitable...
OBSERVE. regard, or heed. LYING. empty. FORSAKE THEIR OWN MERCY. do not heed their chastisement. FORSAKE. not to heed. Hebrew. _'azab._ Compare Genesis 2:24. MERCY. Hebrew. _hesed._. homonym, with...
_observe lying vanities_ Comp. Psalms 31:6, where the same Heb. word is rendered "regard." By "lying vanities" we are to understand "all inventions with which men deceive themselves" (Calvin), all fal...
_JONAH REMEMBERED THE LORD -- JONAH 2:7-9:_ Jonah's declaration was simple, "When my life was slipping away, I remembered you -- and in your holy temple you heard my prayer. All who worship worthless...
DISCOURSE: 1200 JONAH’S REFLECTIONS IN THE WHALE’S BELLY John 2:7. _When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. They that observe ly...
FORSAKE THEIR OWN MERCY, &C.— "They who worship idols abandon the mercy of God, render it useless, and reject it, even though offered to them and always ready to save them." Houbigant reads the last c...
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING TO GODTHE PROMISE OF JONAH TEXT: Jonah 2:7-9 7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple. 8 They that reg...
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. THEY THAT OBSERVE LYING VANITIES - regard or reverence idols, powerless to save (). FORSAKE THEIR OWN MERCY - Yahweh, the very idea of wh...
HIS PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING This beautiful song of deliverance shows clearly the familiarity of the writer with earlier Psalms. It reflects very plainly the horror inspired by the sea in the minds of...
THE MAN WHO DISAGREED WITH GOD JONAH _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 While Jonah was inside the fish, he prayed to the Lord his God. Verse 1 Jonah learned that nobody can get away from God (Psalm...
THEY THAT OBSERVE LYING VANITIES. — See Note, Psalms 31:6. FORSAKE THEIR OWN MERCY — _i.e._, forfeit their own share of the covenant grace. In Psalms 37:28 it is said that Jehovah does not forsake hi...
_[Jonah 2:9]_ מְשַׁמְּרִ֖ים הַבְלֵי ־שָׁ֑וְא חַסְדָּ֖ם יַעֲזֹֽבוּ׃...
THE GREAT FISH AND WHAT IT MEANS-THE PSALM John 2:1 AT this point in the tale appears the Great Fish. "And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish thre...
A PRAYER FROM THE DEPTHS John 1:17; John 2:1-10 The great fish was probably a shark. He who sent the storm prepared the fish. Life is full of contrivances on the part of the great Lover of men. To p...
In the midst of the strange and awful circumstances in which he found himself, Jonah poured out his soul in anguish to Jehovah. The prayer as chronicled for us consists of quotations from the Book of...
They that observe lying (e) vanities forsake their own (f) mercy. (e) Those that depend upon anything except on God alone. (f) They refuse their own felicity, and that goodness which they would othe...
_Me, at the last gasp, (Calmet) and oppressed with grief. (Menochius)_...
The words of Jonah are very remarkable when he saith, though he was cast out of the Lord's sight, yet he would look again. A plain proof that he had looked before. But what I particularly beg the Read...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The most cursory reader can hardly avoid seeing that Jonah has a peculiar place among the prophets. There is none more intensely Jewish; yet his prophecy was...
Jonah the Penitent I. INTRODUCTION A. We left off in our last study with Jonah being swallowed by the "great fish" and that is where we will pick up our study this morning - but before we do, I woul...
Here Jonah says first, that men miserably go astray, when they turn aside to vain superstitions, for they rob themselves of the chief good: for he calls whatever help or aid that is necessary for salv...
We have seen that the judgments which fall upon the unfaithful witness, being at length acknowledged by himself, are the means through which the name of Jehovah becomes known and worshipped among the...
THEY THAT OBSERVE LYING VANITIES FORSAKE THEIR OWN MERCY. They that worship idols, who are nothing, mere vanity and lies, and deceive those that serve them, these forsake the God of their lives, and o...
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. Ver. 8. _They that observe lying vanities_] That listen to sense and reason in matters of God, and make provision for the flesh, to fulfil th...
_They that observe lying vanities_, &c. They that seek to, or trust in, idols, (often called by the names of _vanity_ and lies,) _forsake their own mercy_ Forsake him who alone is able to show mercy t...
JONAH'S PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE. The words, as here recorded, are not a prayer for deliverance, but a thanksgiving to the Lord for the deliverance already effected. From this we see, as Lut...
1-9 Observe when Jonah prayed. When he was in trouble, under the tokens of God's displeasure against him for sin: when we are in affliction we must pray. Being kept alive by miracle, he prayed. A sen...
Whoever they are that do, as the heathen mariners, seek to, depend upon, and wait for help from idols, false gods, whoever choose them for their assistance, and worship them, do depend upon most false...
Jonah 2:8 regard H8104 (H8764) worthless H7723 idols H1892 Forsake H5800 (H8799) Mercy H2617 1 Samuel 12:21; 2 Kings 17:15; Psalms 31:6; Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 10:8,...
JONAH'S PRAYER OF REPENTANCE AND GRATITUDE (JONAH 2:1). Finding himself rescued from drowning, Jonah expressed his gratitude to God, and, probably puzzled as to where he was, called on God for restit...
JONAH 1-4 Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ. I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among different persons and for different objects, He makes use of the similitude of the pro...
Jonah 2:1. _Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly._ What a strange place for prayer! Surely then is the only prayer that ever went up to God out of a fish's belly. Jonah fou...
CONTENTS: Jonah's prayer out of the depths and its answer. CHARACTERS: God, Jonah. CONCLUSION: Though we bring affliction upon ourselves by our sins, yet if we pray in humility and godly sincerity,...
Jonah 2:4. _Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight._ After what we have heard of the misguided and offending conduct of Jonah, we need not wonder to find him sinking into deep dejection and distress....
_And Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God, out of the fish’s belly._ THE RETURN TO GOD The object in setting forth the history of Jonah is to show the nature of his sin, the truth of his penitence, and...
JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 2:8 SALVATION BELONGS TO THE LORD. Jonah knows that God is the sovereign source of salvation (see Jonah 4:1). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0...
CRITICAL NOTES. JONAH 2:8.] When prayer reaches to God he helps and saves. Salvation is only from Him. Idolaters forfeit their mercy. OBSERVE] Lit. regard, hold to, an intensive form: “pay deference...
EXPOSITION JONAH 2:1 Part I. JONAH'S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE. JONAH 2:1 1_. Jonah, in the belly of the fish, offers a prayer of thanksgiving for his rescue from death by drowning, in which he sees...
CHAPTER IV. JONAH IN HIS DISTRESS AN EXAMPLE OF SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION IT is always interesting, and may be profitable as well as interesting, to mark the workings of a soul when struggling with the st...
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly (Jonah 2:1), Jonah must have been a stubborn man indeed that he would wait three days and three nights before he would begin to pray. H...
1 Samuel 12:21; 2 Kings 17:15; Habakkuk 2:18; Jeremiah 10:14; Jeremiah 10:15; Jeremiah 10:8; Jeremiah 16:19; Jeremiah 2:13; Psalms 31:6...
JONAH, IN THE SCHOOL OF AFFLICTION Jonah 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we think of Jonah in the whale's belly, we are thinking of the Lord in the heart of the earth. When we think of Christ in the he...
They — Whoever they are that depend upon idols. Mercy — The Lord, who is to all that depend upon him, the fountain of living waters; who is an eternal fountain of mercy, and flows freely to all that w...