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Isaiah 40:15

American Standard Version

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

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Isaiah 40:15 in other translations

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket,
and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance.
Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

Isaiah 40:15 · World English Bible

Isaiah 40:15 in context

  1. 13Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
  2. 14With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
  3. 15Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
  4. 16And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.
  5. 17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.