Isaiah 40:17 · KJV
“All nations before him {are} as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.”
— Isaiah 40:17
And Lebanon {is} not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Isaiah 40 — Context
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.
16And Lebanon {is} not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17All nations before him {are} as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
19The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
Cross References
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. {altogether: or, alike}
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:
Isaiah 29:7
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
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.
Job 25:6
How much less man, {that is} a worm? and the son of man, {which is} a worm?