Isaiah 40:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.”
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“All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.”
King James Version · Public Domain“All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“All the nations <FI>are<Fi> as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 40:17 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 25:6how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
- Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalms 62:10Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
- Isaiah 29:7All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel— even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her— will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,
- Daniel 4:32You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”
- Daniel 4:34But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
- 2 Corinthians 12:11I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
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