Isaiah 40:15

Conservative English Version

To the LORD, all nations are merely a drop in a bucket or dust on balance scales; all of the islands are but a handful of sand.

Cross References

Genesis 10:5

(SEE 10:2)

Psalm 62:10

Don't trust in violence or depend on dishonesty or rely on great wealth.

Psalm 62:9

We humans are only a breath; none of us are truly great. All of us together weigh less than a puff of air.

Isaiah 11:11

When that day comes, the Lord will again reach out his mighty arm and bring home his people who have survived in Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the land along the coast.

Isaiah 17:13

But even if they roar like a fearsome flood, God will give the command to turn them back. They will be like dust, or like a tumbleweed blowing across the hills in a windstorm.

Isaiah 2:22

Stop trusting the power of humans. They are all going to die, so how can they help?

Isaiah 29:5

Then your cruel enemies will suddenly be swept away like dust in a windstorm.

Isaiah 40:22

God is the one who rules the whole earth, and we that live here are merely insects. He spread out the heavens like a curtain or an open tent.

Isaiah 41:5

Islands and foreign nations saw what I did and trembled as they came near.

Isaiah 59:18

Now the LORD will get furious and do to his enemies, both near and far, what they did to his people.

Isaiah 66:19

by proving what I can do. I will send the survivors to Tarshish, Pul, Lud, Meshech, Tubal, Javan, and to the distant islands. I will send them to announce my wonderful glory to nations that have never heard about me.

Jeremiah 10:10

You, LORD, are the only true and living God. You will rule for all time. When you are angry the earth shakes, and nations are destroyed.

Daniel 11:18

Afterwards, this proud king of the north will invade and conquer many of the nations along the coast, but a military leader will defeat him and make him lose his pride.

Daniel 4:32

You will be forced to live with the wild animals, away from people. For seven years you will eat grass, as though you were an ox, until you learn that God Most High is in control of all earthly kingdoms and that he is the one who chooses their rulers.

Daniel 4:35

To him the nations are far less than nothing; God controls the stars in the sky and everyone on this earth. When God does something, we cannot change it or even ask why."

Zephaniah 2:11

I will fiercely attack. Then every god on this earth will shrink to nothing, and everyone of every nation will bow down to me, right where they are.