'Vanities' in the Bible
They have made Me zealous by 'no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by 'no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.
concerning all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, that they sinned, and that they caused Israel to sin to provoke Jehovah, God of Israel, with their vanities.
and walketh in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and in his sin that he caused Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, God of Israel, with their vanities.
I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.
Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.
For, in the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; but fear thou God.
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole is vanity.
Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?
And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.
Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou -- Thou hast done all these!