38 occurrences

'Nothing' in the Bible

And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

Verse ConceptsGospel, Responses ToSecrecyRejection Of God's CallReprobatesBeing Without Understanding

And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

Verse ConceptsCoinageVinesWeedsA Thousand Things

Because this people will have nothing to do with the softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and Remaliah's son;

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodTrust, Lack Of

Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

Verse ConceptsBattlesGod, Purpose OfPlansStriving With GodGod With YouTragedyGod's Plan For Uspositivity

Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.

Verse ConceptsNorthSmokeOut Of The NorthOrderly ArmysmokingSmoke Used Poetically

And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.

Verse ConceptsReedsSmellsCanalsNature DecayingBrooks

The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

Verse ConceptsHaughtinessTransient WorldMourning Due To Catastrophe

And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.

Verse ConceptsAgreementTrampling PeopleNot DyingDeath Preventedcovenantcheaters

Whenever they come through they will overtake you; for they will come through morning after morning, by day and by night: and the news will be nothing but fear.

Verse ConceptsEvery MorningFearing God's Wordterrorism

And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.

Verse ConceptsBad DreamsAppetite, PhysicalPhysical HungerBeing UnsatisfiedLike A Dream

For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligencePhilosophyReasonShrewdnessThoughtWisdom, Source Of HumanInventionsFalse WisdomWorldly WisdomDiscernment

For the cruel one has come to nothing; and those who make sport of the Lord are gone; and those who are watching to do evil are cut off:

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toMockeryInfidelity To GodUncharitablenessWatching To EntrapPeople EndedScoffersmockers

And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.

Verse ConceptsProtection And Safety

And his rock will come to nothing because of fear, and his chiefs will go in flight from the flag, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his altar in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesBanners, Literal UseBanner, Figurative UseJerusalem, Significance OfPeople As Rockszion

Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

Verse ConceptsChaffStrawLight As ChaffFire Of Evil

Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth, and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing.

Verse ConceptsCovered With BloodUnicorns

It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingRemnantRidicule, Objects OfSurvivors FavouredPray For UsWill God Pay Attention?

And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordAngels as God's servantsAngels as agents of judgmentMorningDisastersAngels Helping UsOne Hundred Thousand And MoreGod KillingThose Who Rose EarlyGod Killed The PeoplesAngels Activities Among Unbelievers

And Hezekiah was glad at their coming, and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil, and all the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores: there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which he did not let them see.

Verse ConceptsGoldHerbs And SpicesDisplayingArmoryFragranceThings RevealedTaking Mixed Metals

And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.

Verse ConceptsLooking And Seeing

All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

Verse ConceptsOther Unimportant People

He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeStrength, Divine

Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.

Verse ConceptsShame Will ComeUnnamed People Angry With Others

You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsNon ExistenceSeeking But Not Finding PeopleWarEnemy Attacks

But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

Verse ConceptsIdols Not ExistingUseless Idols

Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.

Verse ConceptsConfusionVanityIdols Not Existingimage

I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfGod, Suffering OfSilenceLabour PainsGod Being Silent

Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.

Verse ConceptsIndifferenceRefusing To HearBeing Without UnderstandingListening To Godattention

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

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

Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

Verse ConceptsProfitsUseless Idolsimage

Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligenceWisdom, Source Of HumanThe Vanity Of Human KnowledgeFalse WisdomFrustrationCounted As Fools

Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersArguingClaySurrenderingPresumptionPotteryAuthority, Belonging To GodAnimositySuing GodWoe To The WickedMan's Relationship With His Creatorstriving

And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.

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

For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingMoney, Attitudes ToFinancesFree WillBeauty And Self Worthredeemed

So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.

Verse ConceptsActionsBeing A WitnessGod, Purpose OfMouthsDestinyOutcastsAccomplishingThe Effect Of The Word Of GodPurposeaccomplishment

Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

Verse ConceptsViolenceGarments

In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?

Verse ConceptsSilenceGod Being Silent

Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.

Verse ConceptsFutureBad ParentsUseless LabourGod BlessesRaising ChildrenFamily Problems

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