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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 Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
they are considered as a speck of dust in the scales;
He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
16 Lebanon is not enough for fuel,
or its animals enough for a burnt offering.(A)
17 All the nations are as nothing before Him;
they are considered by Him
as nothingness and emptiness.(B)

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