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Genesis 1:2 (100.00%)

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

And the earth H776 was H1961 (8804) without form H8414, and void H922; and darkness H2822 [was] upon the face H6440 of the deep H8415. And the Spirit H7307 of God H430 moved H7363 (8764) upon H5921 the face H6440 of the waters H4325.

the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

Deuteronomy 32:10 (100.00%)

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

He found H4672 (8799) him in a desert H4057 land H776, and in the waste H8414 howling H3214 wilderness H3452; he led him about H5437 (8779), he instructed H995 (8787) him, he kept H5341 (8799) him as the apple H380 of his eye H5869.

He findeth him in a land-a desert, And in a void-a howling wilderness, He turneth him round- He causeth him to understand- He keepeth him as the apple of His eye.

1 Samuel 12:21 (100.00%)

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

And turn ye not aside H5493 (8799): for [then should ye go] after H310 vain H8414 [things], which cannot profit H3276 (8686) nor deliver H5337 (8686); for they [are] vain H8414.

and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain,

Job 6:18 (100.00%)

The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish.

The paths H734 of their way H1870 are turned aside H3943 (8735); they go H5927 (8799) to nothing H8414, and perish H6 (8799).

Job 12:24 (100.00%)

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

He taketh away H5493 (8688) the heart H3820 of the chief H7218 of the people H5971 of the earth H776, and causeth them to wander H8582 (8686) in a wilderness H8414 [where there is] no way H1870.

Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy-no way!

Job 26:7 (100.00%)

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

He stretcheth out H5186 (8802) the north H6828 over the empty place H8414, [and] hangeth H8518 (8802) the earth H776 upon nothing H1099.

Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,

Psalm 107:40 (100.00%)

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

He poureth H8210 (8802) contempt H937 upon princes H5081, and causeth them to wander H8582 (8686) in the wilderness H8414, [where there is] no way H1870.

He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy-no way.

Isaiah 24:10 (100.00%)

The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

The city H7151 of confusion H8414 is broken down H7665 (8738): every house H1004 is shut up H5462 (8795), that no man may come in H935 (8800).

It was broken down-a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.

Isaiah 29:21 (100.00%)

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

That make a man H120 an offender H2398 (8688) for a word H1697, and lay a snare H6983 (8799) for him that reproveth H3198 (8688) in the gate H8179, and turn aside H5186 (8686) the just H6662 for a thing of nought H8414.

Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

Isaiah 34:11 (100.00%)

But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

But the cormorant H6893 and the bittern H7090 shall possess H3423 (8804) it; the owl H3244 also and the raven H6158 shall dwell H7931 (8799) in it: and he shall stretch out H5186 (8804) upon it the line H6957 of confusion H8414, and the stones H68 of emptiness H922.

And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.

Isaiah 40:23 (100.00%)

who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

That bringeth H5414 (8802) the princes H7336 (8802) to nothing; he maketh H6213 (8804) the judges H8199 (8802) of the earth H776 as vanity H8414.

He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;

Isaiah 41:29 (100.00%)

Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

Behold, they [are] all vanity H205; their works H4639 [are] nothing H657: their molten images H5262 [are] wind H7307 and confusion H8414.

‘Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!’

Isaiah 40:17 (100.00%)

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

All nations H1471 before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted H2803 (8738) to him less than nothing H657, and vanity H8414.

All the nations are as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.

Isaiah 44:9 (100.00%)

Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

They that make H3335 (8802) a graven image H6459 [are] all of them vanity H8414; and their delectable things H2530 (8803) shall not profit H3276 (8686); and they [are] their own witnesses H5707; they see H7200 (8799) not, nor know H3045 (8799); that they may be ashamed H954 (8799).

Framers of a graven image are all of them emptiness, And their desirable things do not profit, And their own witnesses they are, They see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 45:19 (100.00%)

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

I have not spoken H1696 (8765) in secret H5643, in a dark H2822 place H4725 of the earth H776: I said H559 (8804) not unto the seed H2233 of Jacob H3290, Seek H1245 (8761) ye me in vain H8414: I the LORD H3068 speak H1696 (8802) righteousness H6664, I declare H5046 (8688) things that are right H4339.

Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth, I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I am Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.

Isaiah 45:18 (100.00%)

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

For thus saith H559 (8804) the LORD H3068 that created H1254 (8802) the heavens H8064; God H430 himself that formed H3335 (8802) the earth H776 and made H6213 (8802) it; he hath established H3559 (8790) it, he created H1254 (8804) it not in vain H8414, he formed H3335 (8804) it to be inhabited H3427 (8800): I [am] the LORD H3068; and [there is] none else.

For thus said Jehovah, Creator of heaven, He is God, Former of earth, and its Maker, He established it-not empty He prepared it, For inhabiting He formed it: ‘I am Jehovah, and there is none else.

Isaiah 49:4 (100.00%)

But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”

Then I said H559 (8804), I have laboured H3021 (8804) in vain H7385, I have spent H3615 (8765) my strength H3581 for nought H8414, and in vain H1892: [yet] surely H403 my judgment H4941 [is] with the LORD H3068, and my work H6468 with my God H430.

And I said, ‘For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment is with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.

Isaiah 59:4 (100.00%)

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

None calleth H7121 (8802) for justice H6664, nor [any] pleadeth H8199 (8737) for truth H530: they trust H982 (8800) in vanity H8414, and speak H1696 (8763) lies H7723; they conceive H2029 (8800) mischief H5999, and bring forth H3205 (8687) iniquity H205.

There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

Jeremiah 4:23 (100.00%)

I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.

I beheld H7200 (8804) the earth H776, and, lo, [it was] without form H8414, and void H922; and the heavens H8064, and they [had] no light H216.

I looked to the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.

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