Yesaya 40:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Segala bangsa seperti tidak ada di hadapan-Nya mereka dianggap-Nya hampa dan sia-sia saja.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Segala bangsa seperti tidak ada di hadapan-Nya mereka dianggap-Nya hampa dan sia-sia saja.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bagi-Nya segala bangsa seperti satupun tiada, dibilang-Nya akan sekalian itu kurang lagi dari pada ketidaan dan sia-sia adanya.

Contextual Overview

¹² Who hath measured the waters in his fist? who hath measured heauen with his spanne, and hath comprehended all the earth of the worlde in three measures? who hath wayed the mountaynes and hylles in a ballaunce? ¹³ Who hath directed the spirite of the Lorde? or who gaue hym counsayle, and shewed hym? ¹⁴ Who is of his counsayle, and geueth hym vnderstandyng, and hath taught hym the path of iudgement? who taught hym cunnyng, and opened to hym the way of vnderstandyng? ¹⁵ Beholde, all people are in comparison of hym as a droppe of a bucket full, and are counted as the least thyng that the ballaunce wayeth: yea and the Isles he taketh vp as a very litle thyng. ¹⁶ Libanus is not sufficient to minister fire to his offeryng, and all the beastes therof are not inough for one sacrifice. ¹⁷ 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as nothing: Job 25:6, Psalms 62:9, Daniel 4:34, Daniel 4:35, 2 Corinthians 12:11

Reciprocal: Psalms 8:4 - What Psalms 39:5 - verily Psalms 113:4 - high Isaiah 40:22 - the inhabitants Isaiah 41:11 - as nothing 1 Corinthians 3:7 - General 1 Corinthians 10:19 - that the Hebrews 2:6 - What

Cross-References

Genesis 49:20
Out of the fat [lande] of Aser shalbe his bread, and he shall geue pleasures for a kyng.

1 Chronicles 12:20
As he went to Ziklag, there fel to him of Manasse Adna, Iozadad, Iediel, Michael, Iozabad, Elihu, and Zilthai, heades of the thousandes that were of Manasse.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All nations before him are as nothing,.... As if they were nonentities, and were not real beings in comparison of him, who is the Being of beings, the author of all beings which exist in all nations; who are all in his sight, and are not only as grasshoppers, as is after mentioned, but even as nothing:

and they are counted to him as less than nothing, and vanity; if there is or could be such a thing less than nothing, that they are; and so they are accounted of by him; they are like the chaos out of which the earth was formed, when it was "tohu" and "bohu", the first of which words is used here; this serves to humble the pride of men, and to lessen the glory of the nations, and the inhabitants of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Are as nothing - This expresses literally what had been expressed by the beautiful and striking imagery above.

Less than nothing - A strong hyperbolic expression denoting the utter insignificance of the nations as compared with God. Such expressions are common in the Scriptures.

And vanity - Hebrew, תהו tôhû - ‘Emptiness;’ the word which in Genesis 1:2 is rendered ‘without form.’