46 Bible Verses about emptiness

For thus said Jehovah creating the heavens, He the God forming the earth, and he made it; he prepared it, be created it not in vain, he formed it to be dwelt in: I Jehovah and none besides

For the earth shall be filled to know the glory of Jehovah as the waters shall cover over the sea?

And the earth was desolation and emptiness, and darkness over the face of the deep: and the spirit of God moved over the face of the waters.

I saw the earth, and behold, emptiness and a void; and to the heavens, and no lights.

I went away full, and Jehovah turned me back empty; wherefore will ye call to me Naomi, and Jehovah humbled me, and the Almighty did evil to me?

Also God will not hear vanity, and the Almighty will not look upon it

And Job will open his mouth in vain; he will bind together words without knowledge.

We heard the pride of Moab; he was greatly elated; his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; not so his empty talk

I said, (also a word of the lips) Counsel and strength for the war; now upon whom trustedst thou that thou didst rebel against me?

Thou saidst (but a word of the lips) Counsel and strength for war Now upon whom didst thou trust that thou rebelledst against me?

None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.

Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience.

For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

Wherefore will ye weigh silver without bread? and your labour not for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me, and eat good, and your soul shall delight in fatness.

Song of ascensions to Solomon. If Jehovah shall not build the house, they building it, in it labored in vain. If Jehovah shall not watch the city, he watching, watched in vain. In vain for you rising early to arise from after sitting; eating the bread of toils: so will he give to his beloved sleep.

And now, thus said Jehovah of armies: Set your hearts upon your ways Ye sowed much and brought in little; eating and not being satisfied; ye drank, and not drinking to the full; putting on clothing, and not being warm to him; and he hiring out, hires out for a purse perforated.

For the rejoicing of the unjust drawing near, and the gladness of the profane even for a moment

A man of poverty loving joy: he loving wine and oil shall not be rich.

And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life.

And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition. For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.

And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my stores, and build greater; and there will I collect all my produce and my good things. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened. And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?

So the paths of all forgetting God and the hope of the profane one shall perish. Which his hope shall be cut off, and the spider's house his trust He shall lean upon his house and it shall not stand: he shall hold fast upon it, and it shall not rise up.

He being deceived shall not trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his compensation.

For he shall see the wise shall die: together the fool and the stupid one shall perish, and they left their wealth to others.

Wealth will not profit in the day of wrath, and justice will deliver from death.

For we brought nothing into the world, it is manifest that neither are we able to carry anything out.

In thy crying out, shall thy gatherings deliver thee? and the wind shall lift them all up; a breath shall take: and he taking refuge in me shall inherit the land, and he shall inherit my holy mountain;

Go and cry to the gods, which ye chose among them; they shall save for you in time of your straits.

And its remainder he made for a god, for his carved image: he will fall down to it, and he will worship and pray to it, and say, Deliver me, for thou my god. They will not know, and they will not discern: he spread over their eyes from seeing; their heart from considering.

Assemble ye together and come; draw ye near together, the escaped of the nations: they knew not lifting up the wood of their carved image, and praying to God he will not save.

They will lift him up upon the shoulder, they will carry him, they will set him down in his place and he will stand; from his place he shall not depart: also he will cry out to him and he will not answer; he will not save him from his straits

And the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem went and cried to the gods which they burnt incense to them: and saving, they will not save to them in the time of their evil

And saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of similar passions with you, announcing good news to turn you back from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and sea, and all in them:

And also I made sick, striking thee, making desolate for thy sins. Thou shalt eat and not be satisfied; and thine emptiness in the midst of thee; and thou shalt remove and shalt not deliver; and what thou shalt save I will give to the sword.

And if ye will not hear to me, and will not do all these commands; And if ye shall reject my laws. and if your soul shall abhor my judgments so as not to do all my commands, to your breaking my covenant: Surely I will do this to you, and I appointed over you terror, consumption, and burning fever, destroying the eyes and consuming the soul: and ye sowed in vain your seed, and your enemies shall eat it.

In all this they yet sinned, and they believed not in his wonders. And he will finish their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

For they ate and they shall not be satisfied, and they committed fornication and they shall not spread abroad: for with Jehovah they left off to watch.

Thus said Jehovah of armies: Set your hearts upon your ways. Go up to the mountain and bring wood, and build the house, and I will delight in it, and I shall be honored, said Jehovah. Looking for much, and behold, to little; and ye brought to the house and I blew upon it For what? says Jehovah of armies. Because of mine house that it was laid waste, and ye run each to his house.

Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers

I am Jehovah thy God bringing thee up from the land of Egypt: make broad thy mouth and I will fill it

And of his completion we all received, and grace for grace.

The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure.

Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ.

And ye are completed in him, who is the head of all beginning and power:

But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, born in the likeness of men:

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich.