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A Drop and Dust
Commentators explain the verse's imagery to show the utter insignificance of human power compared to God. The nations are not just small, but like a single, unnoticed drop falling from a bucket, or like the fine dust on a scale that is too light to affect the measurement. This illustrates that all the world's empires are essentially weightless and inconsequential before God's infinite might.
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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 40:15
18th Century
Theologian
Behold, the nations - All the nations of the earth. This is designed to show the greatness of God in comparison with that which str…
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 40:15
19th Century
Bishop
The nations are as a drop ... — “Nations” and “isles” bring us into the region of human history, as distinct from that of…
Charles Spurgeon
On Isaiah 40:12–17
19th Century
Preacher
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure…
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John Calvin
On Isaiah 40:15
16th Century
Theologian
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket. If we wish to understand the Prophet’s meaning and to read these words profitably, we must …
John Gill
On Isaiah 40:15
17th Century
Pastor
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket
Not only the Chaldeans and Babylonians, and other nations most known, …
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 40:12–17
17th Century
Minister
All created beings shrink to nothing in comparison with the Creator. When the Lord, by his Spirit, made the world, none directed his Spirit, or gav…