Isaiah 40:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.

New Living Translation
The nations of the world are worth nothing to him. In his eyes they count for less than nothing— mere emptiness and froth.

English Standard Version
All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

Berean Study Bible
All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

New American Standard Bible
All the nations are as nothing before Him, They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.

NASB 1995
All the nations are as nothing before Him, They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.

NASB 1977
All the nations are as nothing before Him, They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.

Amplified Bible
All the nations are as nothing before Him, They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.

Christian Standard Bible
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are considered by him as empty nothingness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are considered by Him as nothingness and emptiness.

Contemporary English Version
God thinks of the nations as far less than nothing.

Good News Translation
The nations are nothing at all to him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All the nations amount to nothing in his presence. He considers them less than nothing and worthless.

International Standard Version
All the nations are as nothing before him— they are reckoned by him as nothing and chaos.

NET Bible
All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

New King James Version
All nations before Him are as nothing, And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.

King James 2000 Bible
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and worthless.

New Heart English Bible
All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as 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.

American King James Version
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him 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.

A Faithful Version
All nations before Him are as nothing; and they are counted by Him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Darby Bible Translation
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.

English Revised Version
All the nations are as nothing before him; they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Webster's Bible Translation
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him, lesse then nothing, and vanitie.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
All people in comparison of hym are reckened as nothyng: yf they be compared with hym, lesse then nothyng, and as it that is not.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
All people in comparison of him, are rekened, as nothinge, yee vayne vanite and emptynesse.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
All the nations [are] as nothing before Him, "" Less than nothing and emptiness, "" They have been reckoned to Him.

Young's Literal Translation
All the nations are as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.

Smith's Literal Translation
All the nations as nothing before him; they were reckoned to him from nothing, and vanity.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.

Catholic Public Domain Version
All the nations in his sight are as if they did not exist, and they are considered by him as if they were nothingness and emptiness.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And all the nations are considered as nothing to him. They are considered by him for destruction and for the sword

Lamsa Bible
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him for destruction and the sword.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
All the nations are as nothing before Him; They are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.
















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