1Sam 12:20, 21, 22 – futile (תֹּהוּ – Hebrew) – tohu ► formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness.
▪︎ He delivered from a howling waste – Deut 32:9-10; Isa 45:18, 19
▪︎ Messiah (Jesus Christ) delivers from futility and vanity – Isa 49:3-4; (full context – Isa 49:1-7)
▪︎ Meaningless – Isa 29:21, 40:15-16, Isa 40:17, 23;
▪︎ Emptiness – Isa 41:29; 59:4
▪︎ The earth was originally formless and void, futile – Gen 1:1-2, Jer 4:23;