Isaiah 40:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Isaiah 40:17 Cross References

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

Isaiah 29:7

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her strong hold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

Job 25:6

How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, which is a worm!

Isaiah 2:22

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Psalm 62:10

Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart thereon.

Daniel 4:32

and thou shalt be driven from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; thou shalt be made to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee; until thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.