King James Version (KJV)
Isaiah 40:15
“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.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 40
13
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] his counsellor hath taught him?
14
With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
15
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.
16
And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17
All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
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