Isaiah 40:15

Modern English Version

Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold, He takes up the coastlands like fine dust.

Cross References

Genesis 10:5

From these the coastlands of the nations were divided into their lands, everyone according to his tongue, according to their families, by their nations.

Psalm 62:10

Trust not in oppression; put no vain hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are but a vapor; men of high degree are a lie; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than vapor.

Isaiah 11:11

In that day the Lord shall set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people, who shall be left, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations rumble like the rumbling of many waters; but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like rolling dust before the whirlwind.

Isaiah 2:22

Cease regarding man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for why should he be esteemed?

Isaiah 29:5

Moreover the multitude of your enemies shall become like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones as chaff which blows away; and it shall happen in an instant, suddenly.

Isaiah 40:22

It is He who sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in.

Isaiah 41:5

The coastlands saw it and feared, the ends of the earth were afraid; they drew near and came.

Isaiah 59:18

According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay: fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; to the islands He will make recompense.

Isaiah 66:19

I will set a sign among them, and send from them survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud —who draw the bow—to Tubal, and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame or seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the nations.

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and an everlasting King. At His wrath the earth trembles, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

Daniel 11:18

After this he shall turn his face to the coastlands and shall capture many. But a commander shall put a stop to his reproach against him, and he shall repay him for his reproach.

Daniel 4:32

And you shall be driven away from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be given grass to eat as oxen, and seven periods of time shall pass over you until you know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He wills.”

Daniel 4:35

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. And no one can stay His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?”

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will be dreadful to them, for He will weaken all the gods of the earth; men will worship Him, each from his place, all the lands of the nations.