Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD.
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God [is] the salvation of Israel.
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured.
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.
For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider [it]?
For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass's colt.
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?
[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
And they gave him threescore and ten [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not save [us].
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God: and what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain [persons is] void of understanding.
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough.
Lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who [is] the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God [in vain].
Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.
SAMECH. I hate [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love.
A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh [but] in vain.
[It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved sleep.
For they speak against thee wickedly, [and] thine enemies take [thy name] in vain.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
An horse [is] a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver [any] by his great strength.
Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].
Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
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