Isaiah 40:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ that bringeth princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Who brings dignitaries to nothing, Who makes the judges and rulers of the earth as chaos (emptiness, falsity, and futility).

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Common English Bible

²³ God makes dignitaries useless and the earth’s judges into nothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ He has brought those who examine what is secret to nothingness. He has brought the judges of the earth to emptiness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 40:23 Cross References

Job 12:19

He leadeth priests away spoiled, And overthroweth the mighty.

Job 12:21

He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.

Psalm 107:40

He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

Psalm 76:12

He shall cut off the spirit of princes: He is terrible to the kings of the earth.

Isaiah 2:11

The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:12

For there shall be a day of the LORD of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

Isaiah 23:9

The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

Isaiah 34:12

They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all her princes shall be nothing.

Isaiah 5:21

Woe unto them that are wise their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Amos 2:3

and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.