Isaiah 40:15
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
Note Or coastlands
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.
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.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the nations
- Isaiah 40:22; Job 34:14, 15; Jeremiah 10:10
- the isles
- Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 41:5; Isaiah 59:18; Isaiah 66:19; Genesis 10:5; Daniel 11:18; Zephaniah 2:11