Isaiah 40:17New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— All the nations are as nothing before Him, They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— All the nations are as nothing before him; they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— All nations, are as nothing before him,—A thing of nought or a waste, are they accounted unto him?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— All the nations [are] as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him, lesse then nothing, and vanitie.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— All nations before him [are] as nothing, and they are counted to him lesse then nothing, and vanitie.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him for destruction and the sword.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. |
All
x3605 (3605) Complementכֹּלkol{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
nations
1471 {1471} Primeגּוֹיgowy{go'-ee}
Apparently from the same root as H1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts.
before
x5048 (5048) Complementנֶגֶדneged{neh'-ghed}
From H5046; a front, that is, part opposite; specifically a counterpart, or mate; usually (adverbially, especially with preposition) over against or before.
him [ are] as nothing;
x369 (0369) Complementאַיִן'ayin{ah'-yin}
As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.
and they are counted
2803 {2803} Primeחָשַׁבchashab{khaw-shab'}
A primitive root; properly to plait or interpenetrate, that is, (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute.
z8738 <8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 1429
to him less than nothing,
657 {0657} Primeאֶפֶס'ephec{eh'-fes}
From H0656; cessation, that is, an end (especially of the earth); often used adverbially no further; also (like H6466) the ankle (in the dual), as being the extremity of the leg or foot.
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
and vanity.
8414 {8414} Primeתֹּהוּtohuw{to'-hoo}
From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain. |
Isaiah 40:17
_ _ (Psalms 62:9; Daniel 4:35).
_ _ less than nothing — Maurer translates, as in Isaiah 41:24, “of nothing” (partitively; or expressive of the nature of a thing), a mere nothing.
_ _ vanity — emptiness. |
Isaiah 40:17
All nations before him [are] as (t) nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
(t) He speaks all this to the intent that they would neither fear man nor put their trust in any, save only in God. |
- as nothing:
Job 25:6 How much less man, [that is] a worm? and the son of man, [which is] a worm?
Psalms 62:9 Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.
Daniel 4:34-35 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom [is] from generation to generation: ... And all the inhabitants of the earth [are] reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and [among] the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
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