Isaiah 40:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are regarded by Him as less than nothing and emptiness (waste, futility, and worthlessness).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ All the nations are like nothing before God. They are viewed as less than nothing and emptiness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ All the nations in his sight are as if they did not exist, and they are considered by him as if they were nothingness and emptiness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing and vanity.

Isaiah 40:17 Cross References

Job 25:6

how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, and a human being, who is a worm!”

Psalm 62:10

Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Psalm 62:9

Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Isaiah 2:22

[[Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?]]

Isaiah 29:7

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and who distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Daniel 4:32

You shall be driven away from human society, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you have learned that the Most High has sovereignty over the kingdom of mortals and gives it to whom he will.”

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.