Jonah 2:8-9

Jonah's Prayer

⁸ _h Those who pay regard to vain idols
_i forsake their hope of steadfast love.
⁹ _j But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
_k Salvation belongs to the Lord!"

1. Cross References
   Psalms 31:6
   I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.
   2 Kings 17:15
   They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.
   Jeremiah 2:5
   Thus says the Lord : "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
   
2. Cross References
   Jeremiah 2:13
   For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
   
3. Cross References
   Psalms 50:14
   Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High.
   Hosea 14:2
   Take with you words and return to the Lord ; say to him, "Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips.
   Hebrews 13:15
   Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
   
4. Cross References
   Psalms 3:8
   Salvation belongs to the Lord ; your blessing be on your people! Selah