Cross-referencesExplore similar Bible verses on Jonah 2:8 in English Standard Version "Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love." 2Ki 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.Ps 31:6 I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.Jer 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?Jer 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.