H7723H–שָׁוְא–shav

`Thou dost not take up the name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah acquitteth not him who taketh up His name for a vain thing.

לַשָּׁ֑וְא (שָּׁ֑וְא) Shav' “emptiness”לַשָּֽׁוְא׃ (שָּֽׁוְא) Shav' “emptiness”

`Thou dost not take up the Name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah doth not acquit him who taketh up His Name for a vain thing.

לַשָּׁ֑וְא (שָּׁ֑וְא) Shav' “emptiness”לַשָּֽׁוְא׃ (שָּֽׁוְא) Shav' “emptiness”

So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

שָׁ֑וְא Shav' “worthlessness”

Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

בַּשָּׁ֣יו (שָּׁ֣יו) shov “worthlessness”שָׁ֝֗וְא Shav' “worthlessness”

Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.

שָׁ֭וְא Sha.v' “emptiness”

I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.

שָׁ֑וְא Shav' “falsehood”

Give to us help from adversity, And vain `is' the deliverance of man.

וְ֝שָׁ֗וְא (שָׁ֗וְא) Shav' “[is] worthlessness”

Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

שָּׁ֝֗וְא Shav' “emptiness”

Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.

וְ֝שָׁ֗וְא (שָׁ֗וְא) Shav' “[is] worthlessness”

Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

שָׁ֑וְא Shav' “worthlessness”

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.

שָׁ֤וְא׀ shav' “vanity”שָׁ֤וְא׀ shav' “vanity”

Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

שָׁ֤וְא shav' “vanity”

Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity `are' Thine enemies.

לַשָּׁ֣וְא (שָּׁ֣וְא) Shav' “falsehood”

Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense -- an abomination it `is' to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity -- and a restraint!

שָׁ֔וְא Shav' “worthlessness”

And His breath `is' as an overflowing stream, Unto the neck it divideth, To sift nations with a sieve of vanity, And a bridle causing to err, `Is' on the jaws of the peoples.

שָׁ֑וְא Shav' “worthlessness”

In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.

לַשָּׁוְא֙ (שָּׁוְא֙) shaV' “vanity”

And thou, O spoiled one, what dost thou? For thou puttest on scarlet, For thou adornest thyself `with' ornaments of gold. For thou rendest with pain thine eyes, In vain thou dost make thyself fair, Kicked against thee have doting ones, Thy life they do seek.

לַשָּׁ֖וְא (שָּׁ֖וְא) Shav' “vanity”

The bellows have been burnt, By fire hath the lead been consumed, In vain hath a refiner refined, And the wicked have not been drawn away.

לַשָּׁוְא֙ (שָּׁוְא֙) shaV' “vanity”

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,

לַשָּׁ֣וְא (שָּׁ֣וְא) Shav' “falsehood”

Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt, In vain thou hast multiplied medicines, Healing there is none for thee.

לַשָּׁוְא֙ (שָּׁוְא֙) shaV' “vanity”

Surely Gilead `is' iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars `are' as heaps, on the furrows of a field.

שָׁ֣וְא shav' “worthlessness”

Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

שָׁ֑וְא Shav' “nothingness”

Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

שָׁ֖וְא shav' “[is] futility”