Isaiah 40:23

He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

22He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

24No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

Read all of Isaiah 40

Cross References

Job 12:19He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.

Job 34:19who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.

Psalms 76:12He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.

Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 19:13The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 24:21In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Isaiah 40:23