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1 Samuel 12:21

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

And do not turn aside to go after vanities which do not profit and do not deliver, for they are vanities.

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And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and went after the vain thing, and became vain, and after the nations that were around them, of whom Jehovah had commanded them not to act like them.

Behold, they are all evil; their works are nothing; their molten images are wind and vanity.

Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, fugitives of the nations; the ones who set up the wood of their carved image, and the ones who pray to a god who does not save; they know nothing.

They lift up it on the shoulder; they lift it up and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yea, he cries to it, but it does not answer, it does not save him from his distress.

They are vanity, the work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

But they are at once being foolish and being stupid; their tree is an instruction of vanities.

Among the vanities of the nations are there any who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Therefore we will wait for You; for You do all these.

O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, Our fathers have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.

For My people have done two evils: they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

So says Jehovah, What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they went far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

Those who pay heed to vanities of idolatry forsake their mercy;

but I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will fulfill that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Jehovah!

What does an image profit, for its former has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood? For does the former trust in his work on it, to make mute idols?

and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men of like feelings to you, preaching the gospel to you to turn you from these vain things to the living God, who “made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all the things in them,” Ex. 20:11

Therefore concerning the eating of idolatrous offerings, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart not be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods, and bow down to them;

But if you turn away your heart, and you do not listen, and are drawn on, even you will bow down to other gods, and serve them;

They made Me jealous with a no-god; they made Me angry by their vanities; and I shall make them jealous by a no-people; by a foolish nation I shall make them angry.




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