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Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.
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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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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Behold, the nations - All the nations of the earth. This is designed to show the greatness of God in comparison with that which str…
19th Century
Anglican
The nations are as a drop ... — “Nations” and “isles” bring us into the region of human history, as distinct from that of…
Baptist
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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16th Century
Protestant
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 …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket Not only the Chaldeans and Babylonians, and other nations most known, …
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Be comforted, be comforted. This is the second principal part of this book, in which the prophet primarily intends to comfort th…
