Isaiah 40:23
who brings rulers to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
In Context
Cross References
Job 12:19He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
Job 34:19who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.
Psalms 76:12He will cut off the spirit of rulers. He is fearful to the kings of the earth.
Isaiah 2:11The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 19:13The rulers of Zoan have become fools. The rulers of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, the chief of her tribes.
Isaiah 24:21And it shall come to pass in that day, that LORD will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:19-27
Vanity of Idols. ( b. c. 708.) 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from… Read the whole commentary →