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Isaiah 40

Is. 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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the nations.
the isles.
 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.