Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will punish anyone who misuses His name.

They have provoked My jealousy with [their] so-called gods; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with an inferior people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.

When David returned [home] to bless his household, Saul's daughter Michal came out to meet him. "How the king of Israel honored himself today!" she said. "He exposed himself today in the sight of the slave girls of his subjects like a vulgar person would expose himself."

They rejected His statutes and His covenant He had made with their ancestors and the warnings He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.

So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

How long, exalted men, will my honor be insulted? [How long] will you love what is worthless and pursue a lie? Selah

The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not set his mind on what is false, and who has not sworn deceitfully.

Turn my eyes from looking at what is worthless; give me life in Your ways.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Here is what the Lord says: What fault did your fathers find in Me that they went so far from Me, followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?

Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to false [idols] that make them stumble in their ways- in the ancient roads- to walk on [new] paths, not the highway.

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake faithful love,

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For uttering bombastic, empty words, they seduce, by fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb prepares deception.

Indeed, God does not listen to empty [cries], and the Almighty does not take note of it-

How long, exalted men, will my honor be insulted? [How long] will you love what is worthless and pursue a lie? Selah

Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.

When one [of them] comes to visit, he speaks deceitfully; he stores up evil in his heart; he goes out and talks.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

whose mouths speak lies, whose right hands are deceptive.

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor wealth; feed me with the food I need.

"Absolute futility," says the Teacher. "Absolute futility. Everything is futile."

"Absolute futility," says the Teacher. "Everything is futile."

All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are considered by Him as nothingness and emptiness.

He reduces princes to nothing and makes the judges of the earth to be irrational.

Look, all of them are a delusion; their works are nonexistent; their images are wind and emptiness.

All who make idols are nothing, and what they treasure does not profit. Their witnesses do not see or know [anything], so they will be put to shame.

When you cry out, let your collection [of idols] deliver you! The wind will carry all of them off, a breath will take them away. But whoever takes refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.

At that time, when you call, the Lord will answer; when you cry out, He will say: Here I am. If you get rid of the yoke from those around you, the finger-pointing and malicious speaking,

No one makes claims justly; no one pleads honestly. They trust in empty and worthless words; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.

Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, "Our fathers inherited only lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all."

"Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am against you because you have spoken falsely and had lying visions." [This is] the declaration of the Lord God .

Her prophets plaster with whitewash for them by seeing false visions and lying divinations, and they say: This is what the Lord God says, when the Lord has not spoken.

Is it not from the Lord of Hosts, that the peoples labor [only] to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?

For the idols speak falsehood, and the diviners see illusions; they relate empty dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore [the people] wander like sheep; they suffer affliction because there is no shepherd.

They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commands of men. "

They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commands of men.

For the creation was subjected to futility-not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it-in the hope

For the creation was subjected to futility-not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it-in the hope

and again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are futile.

But by God's grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God's grace that was with me.

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is without foundation, and so is your faith.

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is without foundation, and so is your faith.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.

Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord's work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts. They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

If anyone thinks he is religious, without controlling his tongue but deceiving his heart, his religion is useless.

Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?

For uttering bombastic, empty words, they seduce, by fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.