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They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

They that observe {H8104} lying {H7723} vanities {H1892} forsake {H5800} their own mercy {H2617}.

"Those who worship vain idols give up their source of mercy;

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 31:6 (11 votes)

    I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

  • 2 Kings 17:15 (10 votes)

    And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that [were] round about them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

  • Jeremiah 2:13 (10 votes)

    For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

  • 1 Samuel 12:21 (7 votes)

    And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.

  • Jeremiah 10:8 (7 votes)

    But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.

  • Jeremiah 10:14 (5 votes)

    Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.

  • Jeremiah 10:15 (5 votes)

    They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.