1 Samuel 12:21 Cross References - Rotherham

²¹ and turn not aside after vanities, that can neither profit nor deliver, because, vanities, they are.

¹⁶ Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be befooled,––and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and bow down to them.

²¹ They, have moved me to jealousy with a No–GOD, They have angered me with their vanities: I, therefore, will move them to jealousy, with a No–people, With an impious nation, will I anger them.

⁴ Their idols, are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men,–– ⁵ A mouth, have they, but they speak not, Eyes, have they, but they see not; ⁶ Ears, have they, but they hear not, A nose, have they, but they smell not: ⁷ Their hands! but they feel not, Their feet! but they walk not, No sound make they in their throat. ⁸ Like unto them, shall be they who make them, Every one who trusteth in them.

²³ Tell ye the events which shall be hereafter, That we may perceive that, gods, ye are,––Surely ye must do something––good or bad, That we may be amazed, and behold it, at once. ²⁴ Lo! ye, are, of nought, And, your work, is, a puff of breath,––An abomination, he that chooseth you!

²⁹ Lo! as to all of them, Vanity––nothingness, are their works, Wind and emptiness, their molten images!

⁹ The fashioners of an image––all of them, are emptiness, And, the things they delight in, cannot profit,––And, their witnesses, they, neither see nor know, That they may be ashamed. ¹⁰ Who, hath fashioned a GOD, Or, an image, hath molten? It cannot profit!

²⁰ Assemble yourselves and come, Draw near, together, ye escaped of the nations,––They know not, Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray unto a GOD who cannot save.

⁷ They carry him about on the shoulder, They bear the burden of him––and set him in his place, that he may stand,––Out of his place, will he not move,––Though one even make outcry unto him, he will not answer, Out of one’s trouble, he will not save him.

⁵ Thus, saith Yahweh,––What did your fathers find in me, by way of perversity, that they removed far from me,––and went after vanity, and became vain?

¹³ For, two wicked things, have my people committed,––Me, have they forsaken, a fountain of living water, To hew out for themselves, cisterns, broken cisterns, that cannot hold water.

⁸ But, at once, do they become brutish and stupid,––An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!

¹⁵ Vanity, they are, the handiwork of mockeries,––In the time of their visitation, shall they perish.

²² Are, there, among the vanities of the nations, senders of rain? Or can, the heavens themselves, give myriad drops? Art not, thou, he, O Yahweh our God? Therefore will we wait for thee, For, thou, hast made all these.

¹⁹ O Yahweh, my strength, and my refuge, and my place to fly to, in the day of distress,––Unto thee, shall nations come in, out of the ends of the earth, that they may say––Surely! Falsehood, did our fathers inherit, Vanity, among whom is none that can profit:

⁸ They who take heed to the vanities of falsehood, do, their own lovingkindness, forsake.

¹⁸ What hath a carved image, profited, though the fashioner thereof, carved it? a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood,––though the fashioner of his fashioned thing trusted therein? that men should make Dumb Nonentities!

⁴ Concerning, then, the eating of idol–sacrifices, we are aware––that an idol is, nothing, in the world, and that, none, is God save one.