Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
All the nations are as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.
New American Standard Bible
They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and
King James Version
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Holman Bible
they are considered by Him
as nothingness and emptiness.
International Standard Version
All the nations are as nothing before him they are reckoned by him as nothing and chaos.
A Conservative Version
All the nations are as nothing before him. They are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
American Standard Version
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Amplified
All the nations are as nothing before Him,
They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.
Bible in Basic English
All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.
Darby Translation
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.
Julia Smith Translation
All the nations as nothing before him; they were reckoned to him from nothing, and vanity.
King James 2000
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and worthless.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All the nations [are] like nothing before him; they are counted by him as nothing and emptiness.
Modern King James verseion
All nations before Him are as nothing; and to Him they are thought to be less than nothing, and vanity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
All people in comparison of him are reckoned as nothing, yea vain vanity and emptiness.
NET Bible
All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.
New Heart English Bible
All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
The Emphasized Bible
All nations, are as nothing before him, - A thing of nought or a waste, are they accounted unto him?
Webster
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
World English Bible
All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 40:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Comfort For God's People
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt-offering. 17 All the nations are as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him. 18 And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye compare to Him?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 62:9
Only -- vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.
Job 25:6
How much less man -- a grub, And the son of man -- a worm!
Isaiah 29:7
And as a dream, a vision of night, hath been The multitude of all the nations Who are warring against Ariel, And all its warriors, and its bulwark, Even of those distressing her.
Daniel 4:34-35
And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, mine eyes to the heavens have lifted up, and mine understanding unto me returneth, and the Most High I have blessed, and the Age-during Living One I have praised and honoured, whose dominion is a dominion age-during, and His kingdom with generation and generation;
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.