Isaiah 40:23

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

He gave princes to nothing; he made the judges of the earth as vanity.

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He poured out contempt upon the nobles, and he will cause them to wander in a waste of not a way.

Proving contempt upon nobles, and he slackened the girdle of the strong.

Its nobles shall be called to the kingdom, and none there, and all its chiefs shall be no more.

Jehovah of armies purposed it to profane the pride of all glory, to make light all the honored of the earth.

He will cut off the spirit of leaders, being terrible to the kings of the earth.

Wo to the wise in their eyes, and knowing before their face.

And I cut off the judge from the midst of her, and I will slay all her chiefs with him, said Jehovah.

Leading away priests stripped off, and he will overthrow the mighty.

The lofty eyes of man were humbled, and the height of men bowed down, and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day.

For the day to Jehovah of armies is upon all the haughty and the high, and upon all lifted up; and he was humbled: