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Jonah 2:8

The Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 2:8

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Jonah contrasts the joy and comfort arising from the thought of God with the miserable fate of idolaters. They that observe (); court, pay deference to, reverence. Lying vanities; Septuagint, μάταια καὶ ψευδῆ, "vain things and false."

Idom (comp. ; ; ). Their own mercy; i.e. their state of favour with God—the mercy shown to them, as "the mercies of [shown to] David" (); or God himself, the Fountain of mercy and goodness ().

Henderson translates, "forsake their Benefactor."

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