Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, he is very proud, of his pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath: his pratings are vain. (DBY)
Isaiah 30:7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Isaiah 36:5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Isaiah 44:9 Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed. (WEB)
Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. (KJV WBS)
Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob,'Seek me in vain.' I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NIV)
Isaiah 49:4 But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 57:10 You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say,'It is in vain.' You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren't faint. (WEB ASV)
Isaiah 65:23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 2:5 Thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Jeremiah 2:25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. (WEB ASV)
Jeremiah 2:30 I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 3:23 Truly in vain is the help that is looked for from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? (KJV DBY WBS)
Jeremiah 6:29 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. (KJV JPS WBS)
Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. (KJV WBS)
Jeremiah 18:12 But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart. (WEB ASV RSV)
Jeremiah 18:15 But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up, (YLT)
Jeremiah 23:16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. (KJV WBS YLT RSV)
Jeremiah 23:32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh. (WEB ASV)
Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 48:30 I know his wrath, saith Jehovah; his pratings are vain: they do not as they say. (DBY)
Jeremiah 50:9 For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Jeremiah 51:58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary. (KJV DBY WBS YLT)
Lamentations 2:14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. (KJV WBS)
Lamentations 4:17 Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 6:10 They shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 12:24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. (KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT)
Ezekiel 13:7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken? (KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT)
Ezekiel 14:23 They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh. (See NAS)
Ezekiel 21:29 In the seeing for thee of a vain thing, In the divining for thee of a lie, To put thee on the necks of the wounded of the wicked, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end. (YLT)
Ezekiel 22:28 And its prophets have daubed for them with chalk, Seeing a vain thing, and divining for them a lie, Saying, 'Thus said the Lord Jehovah:' And Jehovah hath not spoken. (YLT)
Ezekiel 24:12 She has wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't go forth by fire. (See RSV)
Ezekiel 30:13 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And -- I have destroyed idols, And caused vain things to cease from Noph, And a prince of the land of Egypt there is no more, And I give fear in the land of Egypt. (YLT)
Hosea 10:4 They speak 'vain' words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. (ASV)
Jonah 2:8 Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy. (See NAS RSV)
Habakkuk 2:13 Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain? (DBY)
Zechariah 10:2 For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)
Malachi 1:10 "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand. (WEB JPS ASV RSV)
Malachi 3:14 You have said,'It is vain to serve God;' and'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)