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Isaiah 40

Isa. 40:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, the nations
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
are as a drop
mar (Hebrew #4752)
a drop
KJV usage: drop.
Pronounce: mar
Origin: from 4843 in its original sense of distillation
of a bucket
dliy (Hebrew #1805)
from 1802; a pail or jar (for drawing water)
KJV usage: bucket.
Pronounce: del-ee'
Origin: or doliy {dol-ee'}
, and are counted
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
as the small dust
shachaq (Hebrew #7834)
a powder (as beaten small): by analogy, a thin vapor; by extension, the firmament
KJV usage: cloud, small dust, heaven, sky.
Pronounce: shakh'-ak
Origin: from 7833
of the balance
mo'zen (Hebrew #3976)
(only in the dual) a pair of scales
KJV usage: balances.
Pronounce: mo-zane'
Origin: from 239
: behold, he taketh up
natal (Hebrew #5190)
to lift; by implication, to impose
KJV usage: bear, offer, take up.
Pronounce: naw-tal'
Origin: a prim root
the isles
'iy (Hebrew #339)
properly, a habitable spot (as desirable); dry land, a coast, an island
KJV usage: country, isle, island.
Pronounce: ee
Origin: from 183
as a very little thing
daq (Hebrew #1851)
crushed, i.e. (by implication) small or thin
KJV usage: dwarf, lean(-fleshed), very little thing, small, thin.
Pronounce: dak
Origin: from 1854
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Dust,
Islands; Isles

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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the nations.
Isa. 40:22• 22It is he that sitteth upon 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: (Isa. 40:22)
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Job 34:14‑15• 14If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
 15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. (Job 34:14‑15)
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Jer. 10:10• 10But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. (Jer. 10:10)
the isles.
Isa. 11:11• 11And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. (Isa. 11:11)
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Isa. 41:5• 5The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. (Isa. 41:5)
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Isa. 59:18• 18According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. (Isa. 59:18)
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Isa. 66:19• 19And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. (Isa. 66:19)
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Gen. 10:5• 5By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. (Gen. 10:5)
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Dan. 11:18• 18After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him. (Dan. 11:18)
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Zeph. 2:11• 11The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. (Zeph. 2:11)
• Nations are rising up and asserting themselves, and arming to the hilt, in order to enforce their will. What are they in the presence of God? They are like a small drop which may hang on a fingertip, when taken out of a bucket of water; or like the small dust left on the scales when the substance weighed therein has been removed— so insignificant that no one pays attention to it. (“Isaiah 40:9-45:14” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the isles as an atom.