Lexicon :: Strong's H7723 - šāv'

Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.

“You must not spread a false report. Do not join[fn] the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.

“Do not give dishonest testimony against your neighbor.

So I have been made to inherit months of futility,

and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

Surely he knows which people are worthless.

If he sees iniquity, will he not take note of it?

Let him not put trust in worthless things, being led astray,

for what he gets in exchange will prove worthless.

If I have walked in falsehood

or my foot has rushed to deceit,

Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries,

and the Almighty does not take note of it —

They lie to one another;

they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.

The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,

who has not appealed to[fn] what is false,

and who has not sworn deceitfully.

I do not sit with the worthless

or associate with hypocrites.

I[fn] hate those who are devoted to worthless idols,

but I trust in the LORD.

When one of them comes to visit, he speaks deceitfully;

he stores up evil in his heart;

he goes out and talks.

Give us aid against the foe,

for human help is worthless.

Remember how short my life is.

Have you created everyone for nothing?

Give us aid against the foe,

for human help is worthless.

Turn my eyes

from looking at what is worthless;

give me life in your ways.[fn]

Unless the LORD builds a house,

its builders labor over it in vain;

unless the LORD watches over a city,

the watchman stays alert in vain.

who invoke you deceitfully.

Your enemies swear by you falsely.

whose mouths speak lies,

whose right hands are deceptive.

Set me free and rescue me

from foreigners

whose mouths speak lies,

whose right hands are deceptive.

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me.

Give me neither poverty nor wealth;

feed me with the food I need.

“Stop bringing useless offerings.

Your incense is detestable to me.

New Moons and Sabbaths,

and the calling of solemn assemblies —

I cannot stand iniquity with a festival.

Woe to those who drag iniquity

with cords of deceit

and pull sin along with cart ropes,

His breath is like an overflowing torrent

that rises to the neck.

He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction

and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples

to lead them astray.

No one makes claims justly;

no one pleads honestly.

They trust in empty and worthless words;

they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

I have struck down your children in vain;

they would not accept discipline.

Your own sword has devoured your prophets

like a ravaging lion.

And you, devastated one, what are you doing

that you dress yourself in scarlet,

that you adorn yourself with gold jewelry,

that you enhance your eyes with makeup?

You beautify yourself for nothing.

Your lovers reject you;

they intend to take your life.

The bellows blow,

blasting the lead with fire.

The refining is completely in vain;

the evil ones are not separated out.

Yet my people have forgotten me.

They burn incense to worthless idols

that make them stumble in their ways

on the ancient roads,

and make them walk on new paths, not the highway.

Go up to Gilead and get balm,

Virgin Daughter Egypt!

You have multiplied remedies in vain;

there is no healing for you.

Your prophets saw visions for you

that were empty and deceptive;[fn]

they did not reveal your iniquity

and so restore your fortunes.

They saw pronouncements for you

that were empty and misleading.

“For there will no longer be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.

“They saw false visions and their divinations were a lie. They claimed, “This is the LORD’s declaration,” when the LORD did not send them, yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.

“therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will rescue my people from your hands. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’ ”

“It will seem like false divination to those who have sworn an oath to the Babylonians,[fn] but it will draw attention to their guilt so that they will be captured.

“While they offer false visions

and lying divinations about you,

the time has come to put you

to the necks of the profane wicked ones;

the day has come

for final punishment.

“Her prophets plaster for them with whitewash by seeing false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.

They speak mere words,

taking false oaths while making covenants.

So lawsuits break out

like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Since Gilead is full of evil,

they will certainly come to nothing.

They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;

even their altars will be like piles of rocks

on the furrows of a field.

Those who cherish worthless idols

abandon their faithful love,

For the idols speak falsehood,

and the diviners see illusions;

they relate empty dreams

and offer empty comfort.

Therefore the people wander like sheep;

they suffer affliction because there is no shepherd.

You have said, “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping his requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Armies?