Isaiah 40:15-17
English Standard Version
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.
Isaiah 40:15-17
New Living Translation
15 No, for all the nations of the world
are but a drop in the bucket.
They are nothing more
than dust on the scales.
He picks up the whole earth
as though it were a grain of sand.
16 All the wood in Lebanon’s forests
and all Lebanon’s animals would not be enough
to make a burnt offering worthy of our God.
17 The nations of the world are worth nothing to him.
In his eyes they count for less than nothing—
mere emptiness and froth.
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