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Isaiah 40:17

American Standard Version

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

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Isaiah 40:17 in other translations

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

Isaiah 40:17 · World English Bible

Isaiah 40:17 in context

  1. 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.
  2. 16And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.
  3. 17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
  4. 18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
  5. 19The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.