Isaiah 40:17
All the nations in his sight are as if they did not exist, and they are considered by him as if they were nothingness and emptiness.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
In Context
18Therefore, to whom would you liken God? Or with what image would you replace him?
Cross References
Job 25:6Is man much more than rottenness and the son of man much more than worms?
Psalms 62:10Truly, these ones have sought my soul in vain. They will enter into the lower parts of the earth.
Daniel 4:32And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him. For he acts according to his own will, with the inhabitants of the earth just as with the holy inhabitants of heaven. And there is no one who can resist his hand, or say to him, “Why have you done this?”
2 Corinthians 12:11I have become foolish; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you. For I have been nothing less than those who claim to be above the measure of Apostles, even though I am nothing.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:13-18
Evangelical Predictions. ( b. c. 708.) 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord , or being his counsellor hath taught him? 14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? 15 Behold, the… Read the whole commentary →