Isaiah 40:17 “All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingn…”

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

World English Bible

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

American Standard Version

All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Geneva Bible 1599

All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him, lesse then nothing, and vanitie.

Darby Translation

All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.

Young's Literal Translation

All the nations [are] as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.

Bible in Basic English

All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

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Cross references

“as nothing”

Psalm 62:9 Job 25:6 2 Corinthians 12:11 Daniel 4:34 Daniel 4:35

Psalm 62:9 · BSB

Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

Job 25:6 · BSB

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

2 Corinthians 12:11 · BSB

I 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.

Daniel 4:34 · BSB

But 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…

Daniel 4:35 · BSB

All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

Also

Isaiah 29:7

Isaiah 29:7 · BSB

All 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,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

18To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

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