Vain

"Vanity of vanities(הבל הבלים)... all is vanity(הֶבֶל)‎."

Vanities

Ecclesiastes 1:2 "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity(הֶבֶל)‎ of vanities(הֲבָלִ֖ים); all is vanity(הֶבֶל)‎."

Hebel

The word translated vanities is hebel given the Strong's number 01892 Spelled HeyBeitLamed (הֶבֶל‎) said to mean vapour, breath but translated vanity and supposedly from 01891 הָבַל‎ habal meaning "to act emptily". The second son of Adam and Eve, killed by his brother Cain was named Abel which in Hebrew is the word Hebel numbered 01893 spelled HeyBeitLamed (הֶבֶל‎).

Shav

There are other words we see translated vain in Exodus_20:7 "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain."

And in Deuteronomy 5:11 "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain."

This other word translated vain and vanity is shav’ given the Strong's number 07723 spelled ShinVavAlef (שָׁוְא) or ShinVav (שׁו)‎.

The word shav’(שָׁוְא) is from the same ShinVavAlef (שָׁוְא) numbered 07722 which we see in Job 30:3 "For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate <07722> and waste." It too is spelled ShinVavAlef but also ShinVavHey but is said to mean ravage in the sense of desolating as in ruin.

Reek and Rake

There is a third Hebrew word translated vanity and vain and is also associated with the idea of empty or empty out and even the idea of idle.

It is spelled ReishYodKuf (רִיק‎) and given the Strong's number 07385 which we can see it in:

Leviticus 26:20 "And your strength shall be spent in vain <07385> : for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits."

This same Hebrew form is also seen in:

Job 39:16 "She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is in vain <07385> without fear;"

As an adjective it is given the number 07386 and is said to mean empty yet still spelled is ReishYodKuf (רֵיק). We see this word sometimes pronounced Rake in:

Genesis 37:24 "And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty <07386 Reek> , [there was] no water in it."

It can be referenced to the teachings of Jesus He uses this term Rake which we see in:

Matthew 5:22 "But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca <4469>, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire."

Tohuw

There is another word translated vain and vanity but also confusion or without form on the sense that it does not conform to the pattern God intended and is sometimes associated with idolatry.

It is spelled TavHeyVav (תֹּהוּ)‎ and given the Strongs number 08414.

It appears a number of times but the first we see it is in:

Genesis 1:2 "And the earth was without form <08414>, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."

Saphah

There is another Hebrew word Saphah (שָׂפָה) which is spelled ShinPeiHey and translated vain in 2 Kings 18 and in Isaiah 36 but far more often translated lip or language.

Sheqer

The Hebrew word sheqer (שֶׁקֶר)‎ is commonly translated lie but is also translated vain 5 times.

In Proverbs 31:30 "Favour [is] deceitful <08267>, and beauty [is] vain:<01892> [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised." The word sheqer into deceitful because the word hebel is already translated vain.

Aven

In Zechariah 10:2 we see a new term translated vain which is aven. The term aven is translated iniquity 47 times as well as wicked(ness) and vanity 6 times.: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.</Ref>

Zechariah 10:1 "Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; [so] the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. 2 For the idols have spoken vanity<0205>, and the diviners have seen a lie <08267>, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain<01892>: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd. 3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle."

The terms iniquity, vanity, and sacrifice are repeated over and over.

Psalms 41:6 And if he come to see [me], he speaketh vanity<07723 shav>: his heart gathereth iniquity <0205> to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].

Isaiah 59:4 "None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity<08414 Tohuw>, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity <0205 Aven>."

Hosea 12:11 "[Is there] iniquity <0205 Aven> [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity<07723 shav> : they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields."

Chinnam

The Hebrew word chinnam (חִנָּם) is translated "in vain" twice. It is commonly translated "without cause".

Examples:

Proverbs 1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause <02600>:

Proverbs 1:17 Surely in vain <02600> the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

These verses are concerning not consenting to have one purse which is a snare and the sacrifice of fools is connected to this warning in Ecclesiastes 5.

The bondage of Egypt is the result of a similar consent when the people make covenants with gods and goddesses of the world.

Other examples are concerned with the people selling themselves as merchandise by a similar consent:

Isaiah 52:3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought <02600>; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

Isaiah 52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought <02600>? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] blasphemed.

Many of these examples are concerned with "house by unrighteousness" which is the same as the cities of blood who offer the wages of unrighteousness to entice the masses to consent.

Jeremiah 22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour’s service without wages <02600>, and giveth him not for his work;

The Vanity drain

So many of these different words for vanity which are often referencing the idea of not bearing fruit or empty or ruining the people establishes a theme which we see in the life of Abraham, Moses, the prophets and finally Jesus the Christ.

We have taken Social Paths guided by vanity which the Bible warns us against throughout the text.

The social bonds of society are either created by a culture of love and charity or force and fealty which is why culture matters.

Entitlements

The word entitlement is defined as "the fact of having a right to something" and "the belief that one is inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment."

It can also consist of gifts, gratuities and benefits that rob the masses of their ethics, morality, and liberties through process of social degeneration.

Legal charity providing benefits to the people through the exercising authority of government has always been a part of a social process which weakens the masses, entangles them in a yoke of bondage, and empowers tyranny.

When you have the belief that you are inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment at the expense of your neighbor you are engaged in covetous practices which is idolatry.[

To develop an appetite for their dainties and accept the idea of obtaining those benefits by the rule of force and power of government you will be engagef in wantonness and those Covetous practices that makes men merchandise. While you may feel justified in your vanity liberty will be destroyed.

These non-charitable practices are the Elements of the world that make the word of God to none effect and consists of Biting one another.

Welfare, Food Stamps, Social Security and even public education are all listed as entitlements but are provided by men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other. They are the fathers of the earth and those who look to them often try to Serve two masters but end up being Workers of Iniquity.

In your vanity you will not listen to the facts nor warnings about the dangers of those dainties and wages of unrighteousness.

• Proverbs 23 "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat."

• Romans 11:9 "And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:"

• Exodus 20:17 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s."

• 2 Peter 2:3 "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."

• 2 Peter 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

• While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 2 Peter 2:19

• And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Matthew 23:9

• "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors'. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.

" Luke 22:25-27

Ecclesiastes 1:2 "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity."

Bible Encyclopedia and dictionary

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Vain: The adjective of "vanity," and representing the same Hebrew and Greek words as does the latter, with a few additions (chiefly kenos, "empty," and its compounds in the New Testament). And "vain" can always be replaced by its synonym "empty," often with advantage in modern English ([Job 15:2]; [1 Corinthians 15:14], etc.). The exception is the phrase "in vain," and even there the interchange can be made if some (understood) noun such as "ways" be added. So "to take God's name in vain" (Exodus_20:7; Deuteronomy 5:11) means simply to take it for an "empty" ("not good") purpose.

The word we see in Job 30:3 "For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate <07722> and waste." It is spelled ShinVavAlef but also ShinVavHey but defined ravage or ruin

Leviticus 26:20 "And your strength shall be spent in vain <07385> : for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits."

This form is also seen in Job 39:16 "She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is in vain <07385> without fear;"

The word riyq (רִיק‎) <07385> which is ReishYodKuf also said to mean empty or idle.

Another word said to mean empty is (רֵיק)‎ reyq in Genesis 37:24 "And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty <07386>>, [there was] no water in it."

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary defines vain as follows;

VAIN, adjective [Latin vanus; Eng. wan, wane, want.]

1. Empty; worthless; having no substance, value or importance. 1 Peter 1:18.

1 Peter 1:17-21 KJV - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

To your vain answer will you have recourse.

Every man walketh in a vain show. Psalms 39:6.

Psalms 39:6 KJV - Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them..

Why do the people imagine a vain thing? Psalms 2:1.

Psalms 2:1 KJV - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?.

2. Fruitless; ineffectual. All attempts, all efforts were vain

VAIN is the force of man.

3. Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; elated with a high opinion of one's own accomplishments, or with things more showy than valuable; conceited.

The minstrels play'd on every side, vain of their art -

4. Empty; unreal; as a vain chimers.

5. Showy; ostentatious.

Load some vain church with old theatric state.

6. Light; inconstant; worthless. Proverbs 12:11.

Proverbs 12:11 KJV - He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain [persons is] void of understanding.

7. Empty; unsatisfying. The pleasures of life are vain

8. False; deceitful; not genuine; spurious. James 1:26.

James 1:26-27 KJV - If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.

9. Not effectual; having no efficacy

Bring no more vain oblations. Isaiah 1:13.

Isaiah 1:13 KJV - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

In vain to no purpose; without effect; ineffectual.

In vain they do worship me. Matthew 15:9.

Matthew 15:3-9 KJV - But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to [his] father or [his] mother, [It is] a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. [Ye] hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with [their] lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.

(We see in Mark 7:11 "But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; [he shall be free]." that the tradition was their Corban which had been set up by Herod and the Pharisees to provide a social safety net which by God's command could only be by freewill offering and charity.)

To take the name of God in vain to use the name of God with levity or profaneness.

Old Testament

Deuteronomy 32:21 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.

1 Kings 16:13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

1 Kings 16:26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

2 Kings 17:15 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.

Job 7:3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Job 7:16 I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.

Job 15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Job 31:5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

Job 35:13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Psalms 4:2 O ye sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye love vanity, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.

Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.

Psalms 12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.

Psalms 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Psalms 31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

Psalms 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalms 39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.

Psalms 41:6 And if he come to see [me], he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].

Psalms 62:9 Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.

Psalms 78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Psalms 94:11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.

Psalms 119:37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.

Psalms 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

Psalms 144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.

Psalms 144:11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood:

Proverbs 13:11 Wealth [gotten] by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

Proverbs 21:6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue [is] a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Proverbs 22:8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

Proverbs 30:8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

Ecclesiastes 1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:1 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:21 For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 For [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yea, it [is] a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 4:16 [There is] no end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 5:7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.

Ecclesiastes 5:10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.

Ecclesiastes 6:4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?

Ecclesiastes 7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:15 All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 11:8 But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 11:10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.

Isaiah 5:18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

Isaiah 30:28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to err.

Isaiah 40:17 All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 41:29 Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.

Isaiah 44:9 They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 57:13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take [them]: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

Isaiah 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

Isaiah 59:4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Jeremiah 2:5 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?

Jeremiah 8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with strange vanities?

Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.

Jeremiah 10:15 They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Jeremiah 14:22 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].

Jeremiah 16:19 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.

Jeremiah 18:15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;

Jeremiah 51:18 They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Ezekiel 13:6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made [others] to hope that they would confirm the word.

Ezekiel 13:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I [am] against you, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 13:9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 13:23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

Ezekiel 21:29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of [them that are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity [shall have] an end.

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Ezekiel 22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered [morter], seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

Hosea 12:11 [Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

Jonah 2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Habakkuk 2:13 Behold, [is it] not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

Zechariah 10:2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.

New Testament

Acts 14:15 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 <3152> unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

1 Corinthians 3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain <3152>.

1 Corinthians 15:17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain <3152>; ye are yet in your sins.

Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain <3152>.

James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion [is] vain <3152>. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.

1 Peter 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain <3152> conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers;

Romans 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope,

Ephesians 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.