Empty

…and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.

I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”

Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.

But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”

From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not retreat, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.

“Go,” said Elisha, “borrow empty jars from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.

You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal scribe and the officer of the high priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance.

“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?

Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.

A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.

Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but an abundant harvest comes through the strength of the ox.

We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.

The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.

For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.

You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.

For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

…so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.

No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.

Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

I know his insolence,” declares the LORD, “but it is futile. His boasting is as empty as his deeds.

I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.

The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.

The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come off! Empty it piece by piece; cast no lots for its contents.

Set the empty pot on its coals until it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt within; its rust will be consumed.

‘When I make the land of Egypt a desolation and empty it of all that filled it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.’

Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?

For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.

But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove empty, but that you will be prepared, just as I said.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.

Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid irreverent, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of so-called “knowledge,”

But avoid irreverent, empty chatter, which will only lead to more ungodliness,

For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.