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


In Context

14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

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

18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, 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 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.