Habakkuk 2:13
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13 Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts
that (A)peoples labor merely for fire,
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
Jeremiah 51:58
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58 “Thus says the Lord of hosts:
The broad (A)wall of Babylon
shall be leveled to the ground,
(B)and her high gates
shall be burned with fire.
(C)The peoples labor for nothing,
and (D)the nations weary themselves only for fire.”
Isaiah 50:11
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11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
who equip yourselves with burning torches!
Walk by the light of your fire,
and by the torches that you have kindled!
(A)This you have from my hand:
you shall lie down in torment.
Malachi 1:4
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4 If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’”
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Isaiah 55:2
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2 (A)Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
Isaiah 41:5-8
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5 (A)The coastlands have seen and are afraid;
the ends of the earth tremble;
they have drawn near and come.
6 Everyone helps his neighbor
and says to his brother, “Be strong!”
7 (B)The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith,
and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, “It is good”;
and they strengthen it with nails (C)so that it cannot be moved.
8 But you, Israel, (D)my servant,
Jacob, (E)whom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham, (F)my friend;
Proverbs 21:30
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30 (A)No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
can avail against the Lord.
Psalm 127:1-2
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Unless the Lord Builds the House
A Song of (A)Ascents. Of Solomon.
127 Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord (B)watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.
2 It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious (C)toil;
for he gives to his (D)beloved (E)sleep.
Job 5:13-14
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13 He (A)catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime
and (B)grope at noonday as in the night.
Genesis 11:6-9
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6 And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, (A)let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” 8 So (B)the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called (C)Babel, because there the Lord confused[a] the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
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- Genesis 11:9 Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused
Psalm 39:6
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6 Surely a man (A)goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing[a] they are in turmoil;
man (B)heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
Footnotes
- Psalm 39:6 Hebrew Surely as a breath
Jeremiah 51:64
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64 and say, (A)‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, (B)and they shall become exhausted.’”
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
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2 Samuel 15:31
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31 And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, please (A)turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
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