1 Samuel 12:21 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition and turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And turn not aside after vain and worthless things which cannot profit or deliver you, for they are empty and futile. American Standard Version (1901) and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain. Common English Bible Don’t turn aside to follow useless idols that can’t help you or save you. They’re absolutely useless! Catholic Public Domain Version And do not choose to turn aside after vanities, which will never benefit you, nor rescue you, since they are empty. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And turn not aside after vain things which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain. |
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.