Isaiah 40:17

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Before Him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by Him as worthless and less than nothing.

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  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah.
  • Dan 4:34-34 : 34 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and glorify the King of Heaven, because all His works are true and His ways are just. He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
  • Isa 29:7 : 7 And all the nations warring against Ariel, all who attack her and her defenses, those who bring her distress, will be like a dream, like a vision of the night.
  • Job 25:6 : 6 How much less a mortal, who is but a maggot, and a human, who is only a worm!
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become foolish in boasting; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you, because I am in no way inferior to the 'super-apostles,' even though I am nothing.

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  • Isa 40:18
    81%

    18To whom, then, will you compare God? What image can you find to resemble Him?

  • Isa 40:15-16
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    15Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.

    16Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.

  • Isa 40:23
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    23He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

  • Isa 41:29
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    29Behold, all of them are worthless; their works are nothing; their metal idols are wind and emptiness.

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    74%

    5LORD, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how fleeting my life is.

    6Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before You. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.

  • Isa 41:24
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    24Look, you are nothing, and your works are less than nothing; anyone who chooses you is an abomination.

  • Isa 41:11-12
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    72%

    11Behold, all who are enraged against you will be ashamed and disgraced. Those who oppose you will be as nothing and will perish.

    12You will search for your enemies, but you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing, as non-existent.

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    72%

    17Every human is senseless, lacking knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

    18They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

  • Jer 10:15
    71%

    15They are worthless, a work of mockery; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

  • Ps 62:9
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    9Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah.

  • Ps 72:11
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    11All kings will bow down to him, and all nations will serve him.

  • Zeph 2:11
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    11The Lord will be awesome to them when He destroys all the gods of the earth. People from every shore and nation will bow down to Him, each from their own place.

  • Job 6:21
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    21For now you have become like nothing to him; you see terror and are afraid.

  • Jer 10:6-8
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    6There is no one like You, Lord. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.

    7Who should not fear You, King of the nations? This is Your due. Among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like You.

    8They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.

  • Hab 2:13
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    13Is it not from the LORD of Hosts that peoples labor for fire and nations grow weary for nothing?

  • Ps 96:5
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    5For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

  • Ps 86:9
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    9All the nations You have made will come and bow down before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.

  • Ps 33:10
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    10The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations; He thwarts the plans of the peoples.

  • Isa 44:9-10
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    9All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses see nothing and know nothing, so they will be put to shame.

    10Who fashions a god or casts an idol that can profit nothing?

  • Isa 60:12
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    12For any nation or kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations will be utterly ruined.

  • Isa 40:25-26
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    25To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

    26Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

  • Job 41:9-10
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    9They are joined to one another; they stick together and cannot be separated.

    10His sneezes flash forth light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

  • Isa 2:18
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    18The idols will completely vanish.

  • Mic 7:16
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    16The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

  • Isa 40:12
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    12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?

  • Ps 144:4
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    4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

  • Hab 3:6
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    6He stood and shook the earth; He looked and startled the nations. The ancient mountains crumbled; the everlasting hills sank low. His ways are eternal.

  • Isa 17:13
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    13The nations roar like the crashing of mighty waters, but He rebukes them, and they flee far away. They are driven like chaff on the mountains before the wind, like tumbleweed before a storm.

  • Isa 2:22
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    22Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

  • Hab 1:17
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    17Is this why they empty their net and continually slay nations without mercy?

  • Ps 22:27
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    27The humble will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise him. May your hearts live forever!

  • Ps 107:40
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    40He pours out contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

  • Isa 34:12
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    12Its nobles will have no one there to call them a kingdom, and all its princes will come to nothing.

  • Deut 32:28
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    28For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

  • Isa 37:18
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    18Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands.

  • Ps 135:15
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    15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Jer 2:11
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    11Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glory for worthless idols.

  • Job 12:23
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    23He makes nations great and then destroys them; He enlarges nations and guides them away.

  • Deut 32:21
    67%

    21They made Me jealous with something that is not God; they provoked Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a nation; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.