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?"
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- 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."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 50:11
"Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 21:30
"There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 41:5
"The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 55:2
"Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness."
Read in chapter → - Job 5:13
"He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 39:6
"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."
Read in chapter → - Malachi 1:4
"Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 127:1
"Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 11:6
"And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."
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