Quotes About Emptiness

See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.

I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.

The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.

Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,

They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

ëWhen I make the land of Egypt a desolation and empty it of all that filled it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.í

You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.

Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!

Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.

“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.

Then it says, ëI will return to the house I left.í On its return, it finds the house vacant, swept clean, and put in order.

But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

Simon Peter told them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go with you,” they said. So they went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.

These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

And they will say: “The fruit of your soulís desire has departed from you; all your luxury and splendor have vanished, never to be seen again.”

And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.