Isaiah 40:15

Surely the Goyim are like a drop in a bucket, 1 and are accounted as dust of the scales; 1 surely He taketh up the iyim (islands) like fine dust. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

In Context

14With whom did He take counsel, 1 and who gave Him binah, 1 and taught Him in the orakh mishpat, 1 and taught Him da'as, 1 and showed Him the derech tevunot (way of understanding, intelligence)? 1

16Levanon is not sufficient to burn, 1 nor the beasts thereof sufficient for an olah. 1

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Cross References

Job 34:14If He should so determine, 1 if He gather unto Himself His Ruach and His Neshamah, 1

Isaiah 11:11And it shall come to pass in Yom HaHu, that Adonoi shall set His yad again the second time to recover the She'ar (Remnant) of His people, which shall be left, + 11:11 as survivors from Assyria, and from Mitzrayim, and from Patros, and from Kush, and from Eilam, and from Shinar, and from Chamat, and from the islands of the sea. 1

Isaiah 40:22It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth, 1 and the inhabitants thereof are like chagavim (grasshoppers); 1 that stretcheth out Shomayim like a curtain, 1 and spreadeth them out like an ohel to dwell in; 1

Isaiah 59:18According to their gemulot (deeds, dealings), so He will repay, 1 chemah (fury, wrath) to His adversaries, gemul (recompence) to His oyevim (enemies); 1 to the iyim (islands) He will repay gemul (recompence, due). 1

Jeremiah 10:10But Hashem is the Elohim Emes, 1 He is the Elohim Chayyim, and the Melech Olam; 1 at His wrath ha'aretz shall tremble, 1 and the Goyim shall not be able to endure His indignation.

Daniel 11:18After he turns his face unto the isles, and shall take many, a magistrate shall cause his reproach to cease for him except that his reproach shall return to him.

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 →

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