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Isaiah 40:17
In 11 translations
- BSB
- All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.
- KJV
- All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
- WEB
- All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
- ASV
- All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
- LSV
- All the nations [are] as nothing before Him, || Less than nothing and emptiness, || They have been reckoned to Him.
- YLT
- All the nations [are] as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.
- DBY
- All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.
- DRC
- All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.
- GNV
- All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him, lesse then nothing, and vanitie.
- JPS
- All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.
- LXXE
- and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם כְּאַ֣יִן נֶגְדּ֑וֹ מֵאֶ֥פֶס וָתֹ֖הוּ נֶחְשְׁבוּ־לֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- καὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ὡς οὐδέν εἰσι, καὶ εἰς οὐθὲν ἐλογίσθησαν.
Who and where
◆ Prophecies of Isaiah
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
Isaiah, The Book ofReadings, SelectCreationIsrael, Religion ofJeremiah (2)Zephaniah, Book ofJohn, Gospel ofJob, Book ofIdolatryProphecy; Prophets
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Cross-references most cited first
- 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.
- Daniel 4:34–35But 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…
- 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,
- 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.
- Job 25:6how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
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