Isaiah 40:23

A Conservative Version

who brings rulers to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

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He pours contempt upon rulers, and causes them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

He pours contempt upon rulers, and weakens the strength of the strong.

They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there. And all its rulers shall be nothing.

LORD of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

He will cut off the spirit of rulers. He is fearful to the kings of the earth.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it, and will kill all the rulers of it with him, says LORD.

He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

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

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