Isaiah 40:17
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New International Version (©1984)
Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
All the nations are as nothing before Him, They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
All the nations amount to nothing in his presence. He considers them less than nothing and worthless.

King James Bible
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

American King James Version
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

American Standard Version
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Bible in Basic English
All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.

Darby Bible Translation
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.

English Revised Version
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Webster's Bible Translation
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

World English Bible
All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

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

Geneva Study Bible

All nations before him are as {t} nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

(t) He speaks all this to the intent that they would neither fear man nor put their trust in any, save only in God.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

17. (Ps 62:9; Da 4:35).

less than nothing-Maurer translates, as in Isa 41:24, "of nothing" (partitively; or expressive of the nature of a thing), a mere nothing.

vanity-emptiness.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

40:12-17 All created beings shrink to nothing in comparison with the Creator. When the Lord, by his Spirit, made the world, none directed his Spirit, or gave advice what to do, or how to do it. The nations, in comparison of him, are as a drop which remains in the bucket, compared with the vast ocean; or as the small dust in the balance, which does not turn it, compared with all the earth. This magnifies God's love to the world, that, though it is of such small account and value with him, yet, for the redemption of it, he gave his only-begotten Son, Joh 3:16. The services of the church can make no addition to him. Our souls must have perished for ever, if the only Son of the Father had not given himself for us.


Isaiah 29:7 And the multitude of all the nations who wage war against Ariel, Even all who wage war against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, Will be like a dream, a vision of the night. (NASB ©1995)

Accounted Counted Emptiness Esteemed Less Meaningless Nations Nought Reckoned Regarded Value Vanity Worthless


All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

as nothing Job 25:6 Ps 62:9 Da 4:34,35 2Co 12:11

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