Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
Bible References
Is it
Genesis 11:6
The Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.
2 Samuel 15:31
Now someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, I pray, make the counsel of Ahithophel foolishness.”
Job 5:13 “He captures the wise by their own shrewdness,
And the advice of the cunning is quickly thwarted.
And the advice of the cunning is quickly thwarted.
Psalm 39:6 “Surely every man walks about as a phantom;
Surely they make anuproar for nothing;
Heamasses riches and does not know who will gather them.
Surely they make an
He
Psalm 127:1
A Song of Ascents, of Solomon.
Unless the Lordbuilds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lordguards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.
Unless the Lord
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord
The watchman keeps awake in vain.
Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom and no understanding
And no counsel against the Lord.
And no counsel against the Lord.
Isaiah 41:5 The coastlands have seen and are afraid;
Theends of the earth tremble;
They have drawn near and have come.
The
They have drawn near and have come.
Isaiah 50:11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
Whoencircle yourselves with firebrands,
Walk in the light of your fire
And among the brands you have set ablaze.
This you will have from My hand:
You willlie down in torment.
Who
Walk in the light of your fire
And among the brands you have set ablaze.
This you will have from My hand:
You will
Isaiah 55:2 “Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, andeat what is good,
Anddelight yourself in abundance.
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and
And
Jeremiah 51:58
Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“The broadwall of Babylon will be completely razed
And her highgates will be set on fire;
So the peoples willtoil for nothing,
And the nations becomeexhausted only for fire.”
“The broad
And her high
So the peoples will
And the nations become
Malachi 1:4
Though Edom says, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins”; thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the wicked territory, and the people toward whom the Lord is indignant forever.”