The words from his mouth are vain and deceptive. He has abandoned behaving wisely and doing good.

Then Moses reported all the words of the people back to the LORD. The LORD told Moses, "Look, I'm coming to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may listen when I speak with you and always believe you." Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD.

Then the LORD told Moses, "Write down these words, because I'm making a covenant with you and with Israel according to these words."

When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words that the LORD their God had sent him to tell them that is, all these words

When he began speaking, he communicated only worthlessness; he added words upon words without knowing anything."

trapped by your own words, and caught by your own words,

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to mock the living God, and perhaps he will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard. So lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives in this city."

"Here is what to tell your master," Isaiah told them. "This is what the LORD says: "Don't be afraid of the words you've heard those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have insulted me.

The LORD told me, "Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. You are to say, "Listen to the words of this covenant and do them.

Your words were found, and I consumed them. Your words were joy and my hearts delight, because I bear your name, LORD God of the Heavenly Armies.

Therefore, this is what the LORD says about Josiah's son Jehoiakim, king of Judah, "They won't lament for him with these words: "How terrible, my brother, How terrible, my sister!' They won't lament for him with these words: "How terrible, lord, How terrible, your majesty!'

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Neriah's son Baruch the scribe. He wrote on it, at Jeremiah's dictation, all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah burned in the fire. He also added to them many similar words.

then I will certainly do this to you: I'll appoint sudden terror to infect you like tuberculosis and fever. Your eyes will fail and your life will waste away. You'll plant in vain, because your enemies will consume what you plant.

Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land won't yield its produce and the trees of the land won't yield their fruit.

Go up to Gilead and get balm, virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you multiply remedies, but there is no healing for you.

Our eyes failed, searching in vain for hope; we kept watching and looking for a nation that would not help.

You people, how long will you malign my reputation? How long will you love what is vain and what is false? Interlude

She mistreats her young as though they're not hers, and she has no fear that her labor may be in vain,

Why are the nations in an uproar, and their people involved in a vain plot?

It is vain to trust in a horse for deliverance, even with its great strength, it cannot deliver.

I despise those who trust vain idols; but I have trusted in the LORD.

"There's iniquity in Gilead, isn't there? They have become truly vain. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; their altars are like piles of stone in furrowed fields.

You reject all who wander from your statutes, since their deceitfulness is vain.

who speak against you with evil motives, your enemies who are acting in vain.

Those who cling to vain idols leave behind the gracious love that could have been theirs.