Isaiah 40:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

All the nations `are' as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Only -- vanity `are' the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity `are' lighter.
  • Dan 4:34-35 : 34 `And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, mine eyes to the heavens have lifted up, and mine understanding unto me returneth, and the Most High I have blessed, and the Age-during Living One I have praised and honoured, whose dominion `is' a dominion age-during, and His kingdom with generation and generation; 35 and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him, What hast Thou done?
  • Isa 29:7 : 7 And as a dream, a vision of night, hath been The multitude of all the nations Who are warring against Ariel, And all its warriors, and its bulwark, Even of those distressing her.
  • Job 25:6 : 6 How much less man -- a grub, And the son of man -- a worm!
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

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