Bible verse

Isaiah 40:23

He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

Isaiah 40:23 · BSB

Isaiah 40:23 in context

The verses around it, from Isaiah 40.

19 To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

20 To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?

21 Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?

22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

23 He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

25 “To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

26 Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

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Isaiah 40:23 in other translations

KJV

That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

ASV

that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

ERV

that bringeth princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

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