Isaiah 40:15

God's Word

The nations are like a drop in a bucket and are considered to be like dust on a scale. The weight of the islands is like fine dust.

Cross References

Genesis 10:5

From these descendants the people of the coastlands spread into their own countries. Each nation had its own language and families.

Psalm 62:10

Do not count on extortion ⌞to make you rich⌟. Do not hope to gain anything through robbery. When riches increase, do not depend on them.

Psalm 62:9

Common people are only a whisper in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a whisper in the wind.

Isaiah 11:11

At that time the Lord will use his power again to recover what remains of his people in Assyria, Upper and Lower Egypt, Sudan, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath, and the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 17:13

The people will make noise like raging water. But the Lord will yell at them, and they will run far away. They will be chased away like husks on the mountains being blown by the wind, like whirling dust being blown by a storm.

Isaiah 2:22

Stop trusting people. Their life is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?

Isaiah 29:5

Your many enemies will be like fine dust. Your many foes will be like husks blown by the wind. All of this will happen suddenly, unexpectedly.

Isaiah 40:22

God is enthroned above the earth, and those who live on it are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the sky like a canopy and spreads it out like a tent to live in.

Isaiah 41:5

The coastlands have seen him and are afraid. The ends of the earth tremble. They have come near and gathered together.

Isaiah 59:18

He will pay them back according to their deeds. He will pay back his opponents with wrath and punish his enemies. He will pay back the people who live on the coastlands.

Isaiah 66:19

I will set up a sign among them and send some of their survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Meshech, Rosh, Tubal, Javan, and to the distant coastlands who have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will tell about my glory among the nations.

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the only God. He is the living God and eternal king. The earth trembles when he is angry. The nations can’t endure his fury.

Daniel 11:18

Then he will turn his attention to the coastlands and capture many of them. But a commander will silence the insults that the northern king makes and even insult him.

Daniel 4:32

You will be forced away from people and live with the wild animals. You will eat grass like cattle. And seven time periods will pass until you realize that the Most High has power over human kingdoms and that he gives them to whomever he wishes.”

Daniel 4:35

Everyone who lives on earth is nothing compared to him. He does whatever he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who live on earth. There is no one who can oppose him or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will terrify them, because he will make all the gods of the earth waste away. So every person from every coast and nation will bow to him.