Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 62:9 : 9 Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
- Dan 4:34-35 : 34 But at the end of the appointed time I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up toward heaven, and my sanity returned to me. I extolled the Most High, and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever. For his authority is an everlasting authority, and his kingdom extends from one generation to the next. 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him,‘What have you done?’
- Isa 29:7 : 7 It will be like a dream, a night vision. There will be a horde from all the nations that fight against Ariel, those who attack her and her stronghold and besiege her.
- Job 25:6 : 6 how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”
- 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 The Signs of an Apostle I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those“super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
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18To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?
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15Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.
16Not even Lebanon could supply enough firewood for a sacrifice; its wild animals would not provide enough burnt offerings.
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23He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing; he makes the earth’s leaders insignificant.
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29Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.
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5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)
6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”
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24Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.
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12When you will look for your opponents, you will not find them; your enemies will be reduced to absolutely nothing.
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17All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
18They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
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15They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
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9Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
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11All kings will bow down to him; all nations will serve him.
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11The LORD will terrify them, for he will weaken all the gods of the earth. All the distant nations will worship the LORD in their own lands.
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21For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.
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6I said,“There is no one like you, LORD. You are great. And you are renowned for your power.
7Everyone should revere you, O King of all nations, because you deserve to be revered. For there is no one like you among any of the wise people of the nations nor among any of their kings.
8The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
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35All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him,‘What have you done?’
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13Be sure of this! The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
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5For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the LORD made the sky.
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9All the nations, whom you created, will come and worship you, O Lord. They will honor your name.
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10The LORD frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.
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9All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.
10Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?
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12Indeed, nations or kingdoms that do not serve you will perish; such nations will definitely be destroyed.
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25“To whom can you compare me? Whom do I resemble?” says the Holy One.
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9(41:1) See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it.
10Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?
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18The worthless idols will be completely eliminated.
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4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
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40He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.
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12Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom and all her officials will disappear.
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28They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.
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34It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud.”
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18It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations and their lands.
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15The nations’ idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.
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21They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.