Isaiah 40:23

He brings leaders down; he makes the rulers of the world like nothing.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

22God sits on his throne above the horizon of the earth; the people that live there are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, spreading them out like a tent to live in.

24In fact they are hardly even planted, hardly even sown, hardly even taken root, when he blows on them and they wither, and the wind carries them away like straw.

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Cross References

Job 12:19He leads priests away stripped of their religious garments, he overthrows the powerful.

Job 34:19He doesn't think more of the rich than the poor, for they are all people he himself made.

Psalms 76:12For he humbles proud leaders; he terrifies the kings of the earth.

Isaiah 2:11Those who look with arrogance will be brought low; those who are proud will be humbled. On that day only the Lord will be lifted high.

Isaiah 19:13The leaders of Zoan have become stupid; the leaders of Memphis have been fooled; the important leaders of Egypt have misled their people.

Isaiah 24:21At that time the Lord will punish all the high heavenly beings and the kings of 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 →

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