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Isaiah 40:23

God's Word

He makes rulers unimportant and makes earthly judges worth nothing.

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He leads priests away barefoot and misleads those who serve in a temple.

He pours contempt on influential people and unbuckles the belt of the mighty.

He poured contempt on their influential people and made them stumble around in a pathless desert.

He cuts short the lives of influential people. He terrifies the kings of the earth.

The eyes of arrogant people will be humbled. High and mighty people will be brought down. On that day the Lord alone will be honored.

The Lord of Armies will have his day against all who are arrogant and conceited and all who are proud of themselves (they will be humbled),

The Lord of Armies planned this in order to dishonor all arrogant people and to humiliate all the honored people of the world.

There are no nobles to rule a kingdom. All of its princes have disappeared.

How horrible it will be for those who think they are wise and consider themselves to be clever.

I will take their judges away from them. I will kill all their officials at the same time. The Lord has said this.