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Isaiah 40:23

Modern King James Version

who brings the rulers to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

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He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

He pours scorn on princes, and unties the belt of the mighty.

He pours scorn on nobles, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no path.

He shall cut off the spirit in princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

For the day of Jehovah of Hosts shall be on every proud and lofty one, and on every lifted up one; and he shall be brought low,

Jehovah of Hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all the weighty of the earth.

They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her rulers shall be nothing.

Woe to those wise in their own eyes, and bright in their own sight!

And I will cut off the judge from its midst, and will kill all its rulers with him, says Jehovah.