14 occurrences in 11 translations

'Emptiness' in the Bible

“Do not bring worthless offerings again,[Your] incense is repulsive to Me;[Your] New Moon and Sabbath [observances], the calling of assemblies—I cannot endure wickedness [your sin, your injustice, your wrongdoing] and [the squalor of] the festive assembly.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsFutilityHolidayOfferingsSabbath, In OtWorship, Hindrances ToAbominations, To GodFormalityConvocationsIncense Offered AmissSabbath Violated

Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

Verse ConceptsCartsRopesPulling ThingsContinuing In SinWoe To The Wicked

and the Lord drives the people far away,leaving great emptiness in the land.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesExile In Prospect

It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesFormlessnessShutting Doors

Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

Verse ConceptsInjustice, Examples OfTrapUncharitablenessBusiness At The GatewayMan Trapping

For {Egyptians} help [with] vanity and emptiness, therefore I have called this one "Rahab, they [are] sitting."

Verse ConceptsProtection, Not Found InExterminationNothingUseless Labour

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

Verse ConceptsChaosRavensPlumb LineCrowsOwlsPelicansHedgehogsDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of CreaturesChaos As Judgment

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

Verse ConceptsOther Unimportant People

He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeStrength, Divine

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

Verse ConceptsConfusionVanityIdols Not Existingimage

Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are, They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfFalse ReligionRefugeIdols Not ExistingVanityUnprofitable SinsUseless PeopleShame Of IdolatryimageHinduism

For thus says Yahweh, {who created} the heavens, he [is] God, {who formed} the earth and {who made} it. He himself established it; he did not create it [as] emptiness-- he formed it for inhabiting. "I [am] Yahweh and there is none besides [me].

Verse ConceptsemptinessEarth, Description OfDivine PurposesGod, The CreatorGod, The LordGod, Uniqueness OfMonotheismCreation Of The Physical HeavensOne GodInhabitationNo Other Is GodEmpty By NatureCreationEarthThe EarthGod's CreationSolar EclipseNot Being AloneEarth Being Fixed And Immovable

"I said: "I've labored for nothing. I've exhausted my strength on futility and on emptiness.' Yet surely my recompense is with the LORD, and my reward is with my God.

Verse ConceptsFutilityLabor, Spiritual Aspects OfHand Of GodReward, DivineUseless LabourTrusting God's PlanNatural DisastersSuccess And Hard Workenergyvindication

There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

Verse ConceptsemptinessUnreliabilityCharacter Of Wicked

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