1 Samuel 12:21 - English Standard Version 2016 And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty. Matoleo zaidiKing 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 despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.
Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind.
“Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble.
They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
“What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!
“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”
Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them;
But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,
They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.