vain

¶ For loe, I will raise and cause to come vp against Babylon, an assembly of great nations from the North countrey, and they shall set themselues in aray against her, from thence shee shalbe taken: their arrowes shalbe as of a mightie expert man: none shall returne in vaine.

1611 marginal noteOr, destroyer.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, The broad walles of Babylon shalbe vtterly broken, and her high gates shal be burnt with fire, and the people shall labour in vaine, and the folke in the fire, and they shall be weary.

1611 marginal noteOr, the walles of broad Babylon.

1611 marginal noteOr, made naked.

Thy Prophets haue seene vaine and foolish things for thee, and they haue not discouered thine iniquitie, to turne away thy captiuitie: but haue seene for thee false burdens, and causes of banishment.

1611 marginal noteIere.2.8. and 5.31. and 14.14. and 23.16.

As for vs, our eyes as yet failed for our vaine helpe: in our watching we haue watched for a nation that could not saue vs.

And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I haue not said in vaine, that I would doe this euill vnto them.

For there shall bee no more any vaine vision, nor flattering diuination, within the house of Israel.

Haue ye not seene a vaine vision, and haue ye not spoken a lying diuination, whereas yee say, The LORD sayth it, albeit I haue not spoken?

For the idoles haue spoken vanitie, and the diuiners haue seene a lye, and haue told false dreames; they comfort in vaine: therefore they went their way as a flocke, they were troubled because there was no shepheard.

1611 marginal noteHeb. teraphims.

1611 marginal noteOr, answered that &c.

1611 marginal noteIer.10.8. abac.2.18.

Ye haue said, It is vaine to serue God: and what profit is it, that we haue kept his ordinance, and that wee haue walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

1611 marginal noteHeb. his obseruation.

1611 marginal noteHebr in blacke.

But when yee pray, vse not vaine repetitions, as the heathen doe. For they thinke that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

1611 marginal noteEcclus. 7.16.