Isaiah 40:17
All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him, lesse then nothing, and vanitie.
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- Ps 62:9 : 9 Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.
- Dan 4:34-35 : 34 (4:31) And at the ende of these dayes I Nebuchad-nezzar lift vp mine eyes vnto heauen, and mine vnderstanding was restored vnto me, and I gaue thankes vnto the most High, and I praysed and honoured him that liueth for euer, whose power is an euerlasting power, and his kingdome is from generation to generation. 35 (4:32) And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and according to his will he worketh in the armie of heauen, and in the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, nor say vnto him, What doest thou?
- Isa 29:7 : 7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against the altar, shalbe as a dreame or vision by night: euen all they that make the warre against it, and strong holdes against it, and lay siege vnto it.
- Job 25:6 : 6 How much more man, a worme, euen the sonne of man, which is but a worme?
- 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing.
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18 To whom then wil ye liken God? or what similitude will ye set vp vnto him?
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15 Beholde, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the dust of the balance: beholde, he taketh away the yles as a litle dust.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient for fire, nor the beastes thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
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23 He bringeth the princes to nothing, and maketh the iudges of the earth, as vanitie,
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29 Beholde, they are all vanitie: their worke is of nothing, their images are wind and confusion.
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5 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
6 Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
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24 Beholde, ye are of no value, and your making is of naught: man hath chosen an abomination by them.
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11 Beholde, all they that prouoke thee, shalbe ashamed, and confounded: they shalbe as nothing, and they that striue with thee, shall perish.
12 Thou shalt seeke them and shalt not finde them: to wit, the men of thy strife, for they shall be as nothing, and the men that warre against thee, as a thing of nought.
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17 Euery man is a beast by his owne knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein.
18 They are vanitie, and the worke of errors: in the time of their visitation they shal perish.
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15 They are vanitie, and the worke of errours: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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9 Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.
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11 Yea, all Kings shal worship him: all nations shall serue him.
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11 The Lord will be terrible vnto them: for he wil consume all the gods of the earth, and euery man shall worship him from his place, euen all the yles of the heathen.
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21 Surely nowe are ye like vnto it: ye haue seene my fearefull plague, and are afraide.
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6 There is none like vnto thee, O Lorde: thou art great, and thy name is great in power.
7 Who would not feare thee, O King of nations? For to thee appertaineth the dominion: for among all the wise men of the Gentiles, and in al their kingdomes there is none like thee.
8 But, altogether they dote, and are foolish: for the stocke is a doctrine of vanitie.
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35 (4:32) And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and according to his will he worketh in the armie of heauen, and in the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, nor say vnto him, What doest thou?
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13 Beholde, is it not of the Lorde of hostes that the people shal labour in ye very fire? the people shall euen weary themselues for very vanitie.
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5 For all the gods of the people are idoles: but the Lord made the heauens.
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9 All nations, whome thou hast made, shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, & shall glorifie thy Name.
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10 The Lorde breaketh the counsell of the heathen, and bringeth to nought the deuices of the people.
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9 All they that make an image, are vanitie, and their delectable things shall nothing profite: & they are their owne witnesses, that they see not nor know: therefore they shalbe confounded.
10 Who hath made a god, or molten an image, that is profitable for nothing?
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12 For the nation and the kingdome, that will not serue thee, shall perish: and those nations shalbe vtterly destroyed.
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25 To whom nowe will ye liken me, that I should be like him, saith the Holy one?
26 Lift vp your eyes on hie, and beholde who hath created these things, and bringeth out their armies by nomber, and calleth them all by names? by the greatnesse of his power & mightie strength nothing faileth.
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9 (40:28) Behold, his hope is in vaine: for shal not one perish euen at the sight of him?
10 (41:1) None is so fearce that dare stirre him vp. Who is he then that can stand before me?
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18 And the idoles will he vtterly destroy.
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16 The nations shall see, and be confounded for all their power: they shall lay their hande vpon their mouth: their eares shall be deafe.
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4 Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
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13 The people shall make a sounde like the noise of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee farre off, and shalbe chased as the chaffe of the mountaines before the winde, and as a rolling thing before the whirlewinde.
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22 Cease you from the man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is he to be esteemed?
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17 Shall they therefore stretch out their net and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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27 All the endes of the worlde shall remember themselues, and turne to the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
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12 The nobles thereof shal call to the kingdome, and there shalbe none, and all the princes thereof shalbe as nothing.
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28 For they are a nation voide of counsel, neither is there any vnderstanding in them.
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34 (41:25) He beholdeth al hie things: he is a King ouer all the children of pride.
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18 Trueth it is, O Lord, that the Kings of Asshur haue destroyed all lands, & their countrey,
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15 The idoles of the heathen are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens handes.
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11 Hath any nation changed their gods, which yet are no gods? But my people haue chaged their glorie, for that which doeth not profite.
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23 He increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: he inlargeth the nations, and bringeth them in againe.
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21 They haue moued me to ielousie with that which is not God: they haue prouoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will moue them to ielousie with those which are no people: I wil prouoke them to anger with a foolish nation.