1 Samuel 12:21 Cross References - MKJV

²¹ And do not turn aside to go after vanities, which cannot profit nor deliver. For they are vain.

¹⁶ Take heed to yourselves that your heart may not be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods, and worship them,

²¹ They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities. And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

⁴ Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ⁵ They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; ⁶ they have ears, but they do not hear; they have noses, but they do not smell; ⁷ they have hands, but they do not handle; they have feet, but they do not walk; they do not mutter through their throat. ⁸ The ones who make them are like them, and everyone who trusts in them.

²³ Reveal the near things after this, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, so that we may be amazed and see together. ²⁴ Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

²⁹ Behold, they are all evil; their works are nothing; their images are wind and vanity.

⁹ Those who make a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed. ¹⁰ Who has formed a god, or melted a graven image that is good for nothing?

²⁰ Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, escaped ones of the nations; those who set up the wood of their graven image, and those that pray to a god that cannot save. They know nothing.

⁷ They carry it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yes, one shall cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

⁵ So says Jehovah, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

¹³ For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

⁸ But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.

¹⁵ They are vanity, the work of delusion; in the time of their judgment they shall perish.

²² Are there any among the vanities of the nations who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Then we will wait on You; for You do all these things.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them.

⁸ They who take heed to lying vanities forsake their kindness;

¹⁸ What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of lies? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make dumb idols?

⁴ Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.