Isaiah 40:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.

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  • Ps 107:40 : 40 He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.
  • Job 12:21 : 21 He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;
  • Jer 25:18-27 : 18 Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day; 19 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants and his princes and all his people; 20 And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod; 21 Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon, 22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea; 23 Dedan and Tema and Buz, and all who have the ends of their hair cut; 24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people living in the waste land; 25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; 26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. 27 And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.
  • Luke 1:51-52 : 51 With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts. 52 He has put down kings from their seats, lifting up on high the men of low degree.
  • Rev 19:18-20 : 18 So that you may take for your food the flesh of kings, and of captains, and of strong men, and of horses and of those who are seated on them, and the flesh of all men, free and unfree, small and great. 19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, come together to make war against him who was seated on the horse and against his army. 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.
  • Job 34:19-20 : 19 Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands. 20 Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.
  • Ps 76:12 : 12 He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.
  • Isa 19:13-14 : 13 The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way. 14 The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.
  • Isa 23:9 : 9 It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.
  • Isa 24:21-22 : 21 And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth. 22 And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.
  • Isa 34:12 : 12 The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.

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    22 It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

  • Job 12:17-21
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    17 He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;

    18 He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;

    19 He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

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    21 He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;

  • Ps 107:40
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    40 He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

  • Isa 40:17
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    17 All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

  • Job 12:23-24
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    23 Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.

    24 He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

  • Isa 40:24
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    24 They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

  • Isa 24:1
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    1 See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.

  • Ps 33:10
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    10 The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.

  • Ps 148:11
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    11 Kings of the earth, and all peoples; rulers and all judges of the earth:

  • Job 9:24
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    24 The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?

  • Isa 26:5
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    5 For he has made low those who are lifted up, all the people of the town of pride: he makes it low, crushing it down to the earth; he makes it low in the dust.

  • Isa 24:21
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    21 And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.

  • Ps 75:7
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    7 But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

  • Dan 4:35
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    35 And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?

  • Isa 23:9
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    9 It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.

  • Ps 76:12
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    12 He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.

  • Job 9:5-6
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    5 It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:

    6 Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:

  • Prov 8:16
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    16 Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.

  • Job 34:24-25
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    24 He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

    25 For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

  • Job 3:14
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    14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

  • Isa 34:12
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    12 The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.

  • Isa 25:12
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    12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • Isa 41:24
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    24 But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

  • Job 26:7
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    7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

  • Job 24:22
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    22 But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

  • Lam 3:34
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    34 In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

  • Job 37:12
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    12 And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,

  • Job 40:12
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    12 His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together.

  • 1 Sam 2:7-8
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    7 The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;

    8 Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

  • Job 24:24
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    24 For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

  • Job 12:15
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    15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • Isa 24:4
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    4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

  • Isa 2:18
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    18 And the images will never be seen again.

  • Isa 29:20
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    20 For the cruel one has come to nothing; and those who make sport of the Lord are gone; and those who are watching to do evil are cut off:

  • Hab 1:10
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    10 He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.

  • Isa 14:16
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    16 Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?

  • Isa 41:29
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    29 Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.

  • Ps 73:19
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    19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • Ps 62:9
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    9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

  • Isa 44:25
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    25 Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:

  • Ps 147:6
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    6 The Lord gives help to the poor in spirit; but he sends sinners down in shame.