Isaiah 57:10
You are wearied because of the length of your trip. Yet you did not say: I give up. There is no hope. You have found the renewal of your strength. Therefore you were not grieved.
Jeremiah 2:25
Do not run until your feet are bare and your throats are dry. But you say that it is useless. You love foreign gods and follow them.
Jeremiah 18:12
But they will answer, It is useless! We will live the way we want to. We will go our own stubborn, evil ways.
2 Chronicles 28:22-23
When he had this trouble, King Ahaz became more unfaithful to Jehovah!
Isaiah 47:13
You are powerless in spite of the advice you get. Let your astrologers come forward and save you! Let those people who study the stars, who map out the zones of the heavens tell you from month to month what is going to happen to you.
Jeremiah 2:36
You change your mind so easily. You will be shamed by Egypt as you were shamed by Assyria.
Jeremiah 3:3
Accordingly the rain has been withheld, and there have been no spring showers. Yet, you have the unashamed (conspicuous) (impudent) look of a prostitute, and you refuse to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 5:3
Jehovah looks for faithfulness. He struck you, but you paid no attention. He crushed you, but you refused to learn. You were stubborn and would not turn from your sins.
Jeremiah 9:5
Everyone deceives his neighbor and does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They wear themselves out committing sin.
Jeremiah 44:17-18
We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as our ancestors, our king and our leaders, and we used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.
Ezekiel 24:12
She has made me tire with toil, yet her great rust has not gone from her. Let her rust be in the fire!'
Habakkuk 2:13
Is it for Jehovah of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire? Do the nations weary themselves for vanity?
Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.