American Standard Version
"All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity. "
— Isaiah 40:17, American Standard Version
“All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.”
“All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.”
“All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.”
“All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.”
“All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.”
“All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.”
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.
He that is too impoverished for such an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.