H1892–הֶ֫בֶל–he.vel

For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.

הֶ֥בֶל He.vel “futility”

And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.

וְהֶ֖בֶל (הֶ֖בֶל) He.vel “futility”

Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and will have my holy mountain as his heritage.

הָ֑בֶל Ha.vel “a breath”

These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

הַהֶ֖בֶל (הֶ֖בֶל) He.vel “vanity”

The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?

בְּהַבְלֵ֥י (הַבְלֵ֥י) hav.Lei “vanities of”

For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.

הֶ֣בֶל He.vel “[is] futility”

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

הֲבָלִ֖ים ha.va.Lim “futilities”

They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

הֶ֣בֶל He.vel “[are] futility”

Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

בְּהַבְלֵ֤י (הַבְלֵ֤י) hav.Lei “[the] vanities of”

O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

הֶ֖בֶל He.vel “futility”

They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

הֶ֣בֶל He.vel “[are] futility”

Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

הָ֑בֶל Ha.vel “futility”

The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.

הַבְלֵי־ hav.lei- “vanities of”

For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.

הֶ֖בֶל He.vel “futility”