Isaiah 40:15
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Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust.

the nations

Isaiah 38:22 And Ezechias had said: What shall be the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?

Job 34:14,15 If he turn his heart to him, he shall draw his spirit and breath unto himself. . . .

Jeremiah 10:10 But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening.

the isles

Isaiah 11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 41:5 The islands saw it, and feared, the ends of the earth were astonished, they drew near, and came.

Isaiah 59:18 As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his adversaries, and a reward to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands.

Isaiah 66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of them that shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia them that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands afar off, to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory to the Gentiles:

Genesis 10:5 By these were divided the islands of the Gentiles in their lands, every one according to his tongue and their families in their nations.

Daniel 11:18 And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many: and he shall cause the prince of his reproach to cease, and his reproach shall be turned upon him.

Zephaniah 2:11 The Lord shall be terrible upon them, and shall consume all the gods of the earth: and they shall adore him every man from his own place, all the islands of the Gentiles.

Context
Here is Your God!
14With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding? 15Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust.16And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.…
Cross References
Psalm 62:9
But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.

Isaiah 17:13
Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.

Isaiah 29:5
And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like small dust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude of them that have prevailed against thee.

Jeremiah 10:10
But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening.

Daniel 4:35


Lexicon
Surely
הֵ֤ן (hên)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 2005: Lo! behold!

the nations
גּוֹיִם֙ (gō·w·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

are like a drop
כְּמַ֣ר (kə·mar)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4752: A drop

in a bucket;
מִדְּלִ֔י (mid·də·lî)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1805: A pail, jar

they are considered
נֶחְשָׁ֑בוּ (neḥ·šā·ḇū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2803: To think, account

a speck of dust
וּכְשַׁ֥חַק (ū·ḵə·ša·ḥaq)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7834: A powder, a thin vapor, the firmament

on the scales;
מֹאזְנַ֖יִם (mō·zə·na·yim)
Noun - md
Strong's Hebrew 3976: A pair of scales

He lifts up
יִטּֽוֹל׃ (yiṭ·ṭō·wl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5190: To lift, to impose

the islands
אִיִּ֖ים (’î·yîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 339: A habitable spot, dry land, a coast, an island

like fine dust.
כַּדַּ֥ק (kad·daq)
Preposition-k, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1851: Crushed, small, thin


Additional Translations
Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, and shall be counted as spittle?

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.

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

Lo, nations as a drop from a bucket, And as small dust of the balance, have been reckoned, Lo, isles as a small thing He taketh up.
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