רִיק

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

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.”

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.