Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
they are considered as a speck of dust in the scales;
He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
New American Standard Bible
And are regarded as a speck of
Behold, He lifts up the
King James Version
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
International Standard Version
"Look! The nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are reckoned as dust on the scales. Look! He even lifts up the islands like powder!
A Conservative Version
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance. Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
In fact, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales;
Now look, He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
Bible in Basic English
See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.
Darby Translation
Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the isles as an atom.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, the nations as a drop from a bucket; they were reckoned as the fine dust of the scales: behold, he will cast down the isles as small dust
King James 2000
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he takes up the isles as fine dust.
Lexham Expanded Bible
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.
Modern King James verseion
Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the scales; behold, He takes up the coastlands as a very little thing.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, all people are in comparison of him, as a drop to a bucketful, and are counted as the least thing that the balance weigheth. Behold, the Isles are in comparison of him, as the shadow of the sunbeam.
NET Bible
Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales. He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! nations, Are us a drop on a bucket, And as fine dust on a balance, are accounted, - Lo! islands, like an atom, can he hoist;
Webster
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
World English Bible
Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, nations as a drop from a bucket, And as small dust of the balance, have been reckoned, Lo, isles as a small thing He taketh up.
Themes
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 40:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Comfort For God's People
14
Who gave Him understanding
and taught Him the paths of justice?
Who taught Him knowledge
and showed Him the way of understanding?
they are considered as a speck of dust in the scales;
He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
or its animals enough for a burnt offering.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 40:22
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Jeremiah 10:10
He is the living God
The earth quakes at His wrath,
and the nations cannot endure His rage.
Job 34:14-15
and withdrew the spirit
Isaiah 11:11
On that day
Isaiah 29:5
and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff.
Then suddenly, in an instant,
Isaiah 41:5
the whole earth trembles.
They approach and arrive.
Isaiah 59:18
fury to His enemies,
retribution to His foes,
and He will repay the coastlands.
Isaiah 66:19
I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put,
Daniel 11:18
Then he will turn his attention to the coasts and islands
Zephaniah 2:11
when He starves all the gods of the earth.
Then all the distant coastlands of the nations
will bow in worship to Him,
each in its own place.
Genesis 10:5
The coastland peoples spread out into their lands. These are Japheth’s sons by their clans, in their nations. Each group had its own language.