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15 Look! The nations are like a drop from a bucket,
    and they are counted like dust of the balances!
        Look! He weighs the islands like a thin covering.
16 And Lebanon is not enough to light a fire,
    and its animals[a] not enough for a burnt offering.
17 All the nations are like nothing before him;
    they are counted by him as[b] nothing and emptiness.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:16 Hebrew “animal”
  2. Isaiah 40:17 Or “from”

15 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
    and are accounted (A)as the dust on the scales;
    behold, he takes up (B)the coastlands like fine dust.
16 Lebanon would not suffice for fuel,
    nor are (C)its beasts enough for a burnt offering.
17 (D)All the nations are as nothing before him,
    they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

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15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
    they are regarded as dust on the scales;(A)
    he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.(B)
16 Lebanon(C) is not sufficient for altar fires,
    nor its animals(D) enough for burnt offerings.
17 Before him all the nations(E) are as nothing;(F)
    they are regarded by him as worthless
    and less than nothing.(G)

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