1 Samuel 12:21 - 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. 更多版本King 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. 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. English Standard Version 2016 And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty. |
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; 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 carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
They bear it upon the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it standeth, from its place shall it not remove: yea, one may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.
O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even 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 Jehovah, What unrighteousness 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 which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.
What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he that fashioneth its form trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:
Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
But if thy heart turn away, and 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 that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.