Isaiah 40:23
Isaiah chapter 40 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
KJV
King James Version · 1611That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Context
v.22It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
v.23This passage
v.24Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 23:9
Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
- Job 34:19
That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
- Revelation 19:18
that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.
- Isaiah 34:12
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
- Luke 1:51
He hath showed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.
- Psalms 76:12
He will cut off the spirit of princes: He is terrible to the kings of the earth.