Isaiah 40:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.”
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“He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.”
King James Version · Public Domain“that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 40:23 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 12:19He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.
- Job 12:21He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
- Job 34:19who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
- Job 34:20They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
- Psalms 76:12He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.
- Psalms 107:40He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
- Isaiah 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—
- Isaiah 19:13The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.
- Isaiah 23:9The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.
- Isaiah 24:21In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
- Isaiah 34:12No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.
- Jeremiah 25:18to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
- Luke 1:51He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
- Revelation 19:18so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”
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