Never use the name of Jehovah your God in a false and evil way. Jehovah will make sure that anyone who is false, evil, careless and vain with his name will be punished.

They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods. They angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous and a nation of godless fools to make them angry.

David went home so he could ask Jehovah to bless his family. But Saul's daughter Michal went out and started yelling at him: You were really great today! She said. You acted like a dirty old man. You danced around half-naked in front of your servants' slave-girls.

They refused to obey his instructions. They did not keep the covenant he made with their ancestors. They disregarded his warnings. They worshiped worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They followed the customs of the surrounding nations, disobeying Jehovah's command not to imitate them.

I am allotted months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.

O sons of men, how long will my glorious honor be turned into shame? How long will you love empty, worthless things and search for the lie?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up (turned) to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully.

Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity, and revive me in your ways.

Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.

Jehovah says: What bad thing (injustice) did your fathers find in me that they went so far away from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless (lead astray) themselves.

My people have forgotten me. They burn incense to worthless gods and they have stumbled from their ways. They stray from the ancient paths to walk in pathways and not on a highway.

They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

They changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creation more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their womb fashions deceit.

Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

O sons of men, how long will my glorious honor be turned into shame? How long will you love empty, worthless things and search for the lie?

His mouth is full of curses, deception, and oppression. Trouble and wrongdoing are on the tip of his tongue.

People speak lies to one another. They speak with flattering lips and with double-heart. (Double Heart: They say one thing but mean another.)

When one of them comes to visit me, he speaks falsehood. His heart collects gossip. Then he leaves to tell others.

Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.

Whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with food necessary for me.

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.

Before him all the nations are as nothing! He regards them as worthless and less than nothing.

He brings princes to nothing and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

See they are all false (hurtful) (nonexistent)! Their deeds amount to nothing! Their images are but wind and confusion.

All who make idols are nothing. The things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind. They are shamefully ignorant.

When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry them all away. A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

Then you will call, and Jehovah will answer! You will cry and he will say: 'Here I am.' If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness,

No one calls for justice and no one pleads his case truthfully. People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

They are worthless, a work of mockery. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Jehovah is my strength and my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. Nations come to you from the most distant parts of the world and say: Our ancestors have inherited lies, worthless and unprofitable gods.

Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: 'Because you have spoken falsehood and seen a lie, therefore behold, I am against you,' declares the Lord Jehovah.

Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them. They see false visions and divine lies for them. They say: This is what the Lord Jehovah says, when Jehovah has not spoken.

Is it for Jehovah of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire? Do the nations weary themselves for vanity?

For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie. They have told false dreams! They comfort in vain. They go their way like sheep. They are afflicted because there is no shepherd.

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules (commands) of men.'

They worship me in vain teaching as doctrines the commands of men.'

For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it's own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope.

For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it's own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope.

And again: Jehovah knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain (useless) (empty). (Psalm 94:11)

By the divine influence of God I am what I am. His grace was not given to me in vain for I labored more than all of them. Yet it was not I. It was the divine influence and favor of God in me.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is worth nothing, and your faith is also without value.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is worth nothing, and your faith is also without value.

And if Christ is not resurrected, your faith is worth nothing, and you are still in your sins.

And if Christ is not resurrected, your faith is worth nothing, and you are still in your sins.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable. Always have plenty to do in the work of the Lord, for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking).

This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking). They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.

You should avoid foolish arguing and dissentions, questioning; and genealogies, and arguing about law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

If any man thinks he is religious, while he does not control his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain (worthless) (useless).

Are you willing to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is useless (barren) (lifeless)?

For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they are bondservants of corruption. A man is brought into bondage by one and enslaved by another.