Isaiah 40:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing; he makes the earth’s leaders insignificant.

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  • Ps 107:40 : 40 He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.
  • Job 12:21 : 21 He pours contempt on noblemen and disarms the powerful.
  • Jer 25:18-27 : 18 I made Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. Such is already becoming the case! 19 I made all of these other people drink it: Pharaoh, king of Egypt; his attendants, his officials, his people, 20 the foreigners living in Egypt; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines, the people of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, the people who had been left alive from Ashdod; 21 all the people of Edom, Moab, Ammon; 22 all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon; all the kings of the coastlands along the sea; 23 the people of Dedan, Tema, Buz, all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples; 24 all the kings of Arabia who live in the desert; 25 all the kings of Zimri; all the kings of Elam; all the kings of Media; 26 all the kings of the north, whether near or far from one another; and all the other kingdoms which are on the face of the earth. After all of them have drunk the wine of the LORD’s wrath, the king of Babylon must drink it. 27 Then the LORD said to me,“Tell them that the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘Drink this cup until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can’t get up. For I will send wars sweeping through you.’
  • Luke 1:51-52 : 51 He has demonstrated power with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance of their hearts. 52 He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position;
  • Rev 19:18-20 : 18 to eat your fill of the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of powerful people, the flesh of horses and those who ride them, and the flesh of all people, both free and slave, and small and great!” 19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to do battle with the one who rode the horse and with his army. 20 Now the beast was seized, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf– signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.
  • Job 34:19-20 : 19 who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands? 20 In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.
  • Ps 76:12 : 12 He humbles princes; the kings of the earth regard him as awesome.
  • Isa 19:13-14 : 13 The officials of Zoan are fools, the officials of Memphis are misled; the rulers of her tribes lead Egypt astray. 14 The LORD has made them undiscerning; they lead Egypt astray in all she does, so that she is like a drunk sliding around in his own vomit.
  • Isa 23:9 : 9 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies planned it– to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.
  • Isa 24:21-22 : 21 The Lord Will Become King At that time the LORD will punish the heavenly forces in the heavens and the earthly kings on the earth. 22 They will be imprisoned in a pit, locked up in a prison, and after staying there for a long time, they will be punished.
  • Isa 34:12 : 12 Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom and all her officials will disappear.

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    17All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.

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    14with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,

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