Isaiah 40:15

Catholic Public Domain Version

Behold, the nations are like a drop of water in a bucket, and they are considered as the smallest grain on a balance. Behold, the islands are like a little dust.

Cross References

Genesis 10:5

The islands of the Gentiles were divided by these into their regions, each one according to his tongue, and their families in their nations.

Psalm 62:10

Truly, these ones have sought my soul in vain. They will enter into the lower parts of the earth.

Psalm 62:9

My soul has clung close to you. Your right hand has supported me.

Isaiah 11:11

And this shall be in that day: the Lord will send forth his hand a second time to take possession of the remnant of his people who will be left behind: from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 17:13

The peoples will make a noise, like the noise of waters overflowing, but he will rebuke him, and so he will flee far away. And he will be quickly taken away, like the dust of the mountains before the face of the wind, and like a whirlwind before a tempest.

Isaiah 2:22

Therefore, rest away from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he considers himself to be exalted.

Isaiah 29:5

And the multitude of those who fan you will be like fine dust. And the multitude of those who have prevailed against you will be like embers fading away.

Isaiah 40:22

He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.

Isaiah 41:5

The islands saw it and were afraid. The ends of the earth were stupefied. They drew near and arrived.

Isaiah 59:18

This was for vindication, as a repayment of indignation to his adversaries, and as a sudden reversal for his enemies. He will repay the islands in their turn.

Isaiah 66:19

And I will set a sign among them. And I will send some of those who will have been saved to the Gentiles in the sea, to Africa, and to those who draw the bow in Lydia, to Italy and Greece, to islands far away, to those who have not heard of me, and to those who have not seen my glory. And they will announce my glory to the Gentiles.

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. Before his indignation, the earth will shake. And the Gentiles will not be able to withstand his threats.

Daniel 11:18

And he will turn his face towards the islands, and he will seize many. And he will cause the leader of his reproach to cease, and his reproach will be turned around for him.

Daniel 4:32

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him. For he acts according to his own will, with the inhabitants of the earth just as with the holy inhabitants of heaven. And there is no one who can resist his hand, or say to him, "Why have you done this?"

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will be a horror over them, and he will reduce all the gods of the earth. And they will adore him, each man from his own place, all the islands of the Gentiles.