Lev 26:16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Lev 26:20 And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
Job 39:16 She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;
though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
Psa 2:1 Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
and the peoples plot in vain?
Psa 4:2 O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame?
How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah
How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah
Psa 73:13 All in vain have I kept my heart clean
and washed my hands in innocence.
and washed my hands in innocence.
Isa 30:7 Egypt’s help is worthless and empty;
therefore I have called her
“Rahab who sits still.”
therefore I have called her
“Rahab who sits still.”
Isa 49:4 But I said, “I have labored in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my right is with the Lord,
and my recompense with my God.”
I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my right is with the Lord,
and my recompense with my God.”
Isa 65:23 They shall not labor in vain
or bear children for calamity,
for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
and their descendants with them.
or bear children for calamity,
for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
and their descendants with them.
Jer 51:34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
he has swallowed me like a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out.
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
he has swallowed me like a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out.
Jer 51:58 “Thus says the Lord of hosts:
The broad wall of Babylon
shall be leveled to the ground,
and her high gates
shall be burned with fire.
The peoples labor for nothing,
and the nations weary themselves only for fire.”
The broad wall of Babylon
shall be leveled to the ground,
and her high gates
shall be burned with fire.
The peoples labor for nothing,
and the nations weary themselves only for fire.”
Hab 2:13 Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts
that peoples labor merely for fire,
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
that peoples labor merely for fire,
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
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