Worthless

Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.

They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.

So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.

But some worthless men said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him and brought him no gifts; but Saul remained silent about it.

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

Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to devote them to destruction, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.

…but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”

And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!

Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

This happened because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.

For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins, which he caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.

They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.

You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.

…who says to kings, ‘You are worthless!’ and to nobles, ‘You are wicked,’

I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.

Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.

A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

“Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.

“Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.

Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.

This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.

This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.

Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.

Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”

And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,

And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith.

But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.

O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?