23That brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity.


In Context

20 He that is so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

21 Have you not known? have you not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 It is he that sits on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:

23 That brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

24 Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown: yes, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

25 To whom then will you liken me, or shall I be equal? said the Holy One.

Isaiah 40:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:23That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

40:23He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

40:23He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

40:23that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:23that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

40:23that bringeth princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:23That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:23who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

40:23He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;