1 Samuel 12:21 Cross References - Brenton

²¹ And turn not aside after the gods that are nothing, who will do nothing, and will not deliver you, because they are nothing.

¹⁶ take heed to thyself that thy heart be not puffed up, and ye transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them:

²¹ They have provoked me to jealousy with that which is not God, they have exasperated me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.

^{4 (114:4)} The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. ^{5 (114:5)} They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see: ^{6 (114:6)} they have ears, but they cannot hear; they have noses, but they cannot smell; ^{7 (114:7)} they have hands, but they cannot handle; they have feet, but they cannot walk: they cannot speak through their throat. ^{8 (114:8)} Let those that make them become like to them, and all who trust in them.

²³ tell us, declare ye to us the things that are coming on at the last time, and we shall know that ye are gods: do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and see at the same time ²⁴ whence ye are, and whence is your works: they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.

²⁹ For these are your makers, as ye think, and they that cause you to err in vain.

⁹ But they that framed false gods did not then hearken; and they that graved images are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed ¹⁰ that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:

²⁰ Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, ye that escape of the nations: they that set up wood, even their graven image, have no knowledge, nor they who pray to gods that do not save.

⁷ They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move: and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in me, that they have revolted far from me, and gone after vanities, and become vain?

¹³ For my people has committed two faults, and evil ones: they have forsaken me, the fountain of water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.

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¹⁵ They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

²² Is there any one among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? and will the sky yield his fulness at their bidding? Art not thou he? we will even wait on thee, O Lord: for thou hast made all these things.

¹⁹ O Lord, thou art my strength, and mine help, and my refuge in days of evil: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vain were the idols which our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.

^{8 (2:9)} They that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.

¹⁸ What profit it the graven image, that they have graven it? one has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.