1 Samuel 12:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Don’t turn away to follow worthless things that can’t profit or rescue you; they are worthless. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
They rejected his statutes and his covenant he had made with their ancestors and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.
Look, all of them are a delusion; their works are non-existent; their images are wind and emptiness.
‘Come, gather together, and approach, you fugitives of the nations. Those who carry their wooden idols and pray to a god who cannot save have no knowledge.
They lift it to their shoulder and bear it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands; it does not budge from its place. They cry out to it but it doesn’t answer; it saves no one from his trouble.
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.
They are both stupid and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the skies alone give showers? Are you not the Lord our God? We therefore put our hope in you, for you have done all these things.
Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of distress, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and they will say, ‘Our ancestors inherited only lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.’
For my people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves #– # cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
This is what the Lord says: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they went so far from me, followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
but as for me, I will sacrifice to you with a voice of thanksgiving. I will fulfil what I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the Lord.
What use is a carved idol after its craftsman carves it? It is only a cast image, a teacher of lies. For the one who crafts its shape trusts in it and makes worthless idols that cannot speak.
‘People! Why are you doing these things? We are people also, just like you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them. ,
About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’, and that ‘there is no God but one’.
Be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside, serve, and bow in worship to other gods.
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow in worship to other gods and serve them,
They have provoked my jealousy with what is not a god; they have enraged me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with what is not a people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.