Isaiah 40:23
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Isaiah 40:23 in other translations
| BSB | He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless. |
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| WEB | who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless. |
| ASV | that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. |
| YLT | He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made; |
| DARBY | that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. |
| BBE | He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value. |
| Webster | That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. |
What does Isaiah 40:23 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 40:18-26
Whatever we esteem or love, fear or hope in, more than God, that creature we make equal with God, though we do not make images or worship them. He that is so poor, that he has scarcely a sacrifice to offer, yet will not be without a god of his own. They spared no cost upon their idols; we grudge what is spent in the service of our God. To prove the greatness of God, the prophet appeals to all ages and nations. Those…
Isaiah 40:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 40:23
- Psalms 107:40
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
- Job 12:21
He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
- Jeremiah 25:18-27
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day; Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, …
- Isaiah 34:12
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
- Isaiah 24:21-22
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
- Psalms 76:12
He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
- Isaiah 23:9
The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
- Revelation 19:18-20
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 on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
- Isaiah 19:13-14
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
- Job 34:19-20
How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands. In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
- Luke 1:51-52
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
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Context
- Isaiah 40:22
It 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:
- Isaiah 40:23
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
- Isaiah 40:24
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Isaiah 40:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El torna en nada los poderosos, y á los que gobiernan la tierra hace como cosa vana. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | qui réduit ses chefs à néant, qui fait que les juges de la terre sont comme rien: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | der die Fürsten zu nichts macht, die Richter der Erde in Nichtigkeit verwandelt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | qui dat secretorum scrutatores quasi non sint, judices terræ velut inane fecit. |