Isaiah 40:15

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the isles like fine dust.

Cross References

Genesis 10:5

From these the coastland peoples spread. These are the sons of Japheth in their lands, each with his own language, by their families, in their nations.

Psalm 62:10

Put no confidence in extortion, set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

Psalm 62:9

Men of low estate are but a breath, men of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Isaiah 11:11

In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant which is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 2:22

Turn away from man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

Isaiah 29:5

But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,

Isaiah 40:22

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

Isaiah 41:5

The coastlands have seen and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.

Isaiah 59:18

According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render requital.

Isaiah 66:19

and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that 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 the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

Daniel 11:18

Afterward he shall turn his face to the coastlands, and shall take many of them; but a commander shall put an end to his insolence; indeed he shall turn his insolence back upon him.

Daniel 4:32

and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and you shall be made to eat grass like an ox; and seven times shall pass over you, until you have learned that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.”

Daniel 4:35

all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing; and he does according to his will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What doest thou?”

Zephaniah 2:11

The Lord will be terrible against them; yea, he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.