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…then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

…and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

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

But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”

They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.

“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.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”

Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?