17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.


In Context

14 With whom took he counsel, and who gave him intelligence, and instructed him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?

15 Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the isles as an atom.

16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.

17 All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.

18 To whom then will ye liken God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him?

19 The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains for it.

Isaiah 40:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:17All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

40:17Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

40:17All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

40:17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

40:17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:17All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:17All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

40:17All the nations are as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:17All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.