Isaiah 40:15
Isaiah 40:15 — The New International Version (NIV)
15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
they are regarded as dust on the scales;
he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.
Isaiah 40:15 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
15 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.
Isaiah 40:15 — New Living Translation (NLT)
15 No, for all the nations of the world
are but a drop in the bucket.
They are nothing more
than dust on the scales.
He picks up the whole earth
as though it were a grain of sand.
Isaiah 40:15 — The New King James Version (NKJV)
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket,
And are counted as the small dust on the scales;
Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing.
Isaiah 40:15 — New Century Version (NCV)
15 The nations are like one small drop in a bucket;
they are no more than the dust on his measuring scales.
To him the islands are no more than fine dust on his scales.
Isaiah 40:15 — American Standard Version (ASV)
15 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.
Isaiah 40:15 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
15 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.
Isaiah 40:15 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
15 The nations are like a drop in a bucket
and are considered to be like dust on a scale.
The weight of the islands is like fine dust.
Isaiah 40:15 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
15 Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
they are considered as a speck of dust in the scales;
He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
Isaiah 40:15 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
15 Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
and are accounted as dust on the scales;
see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.
Isaiah 40:15 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)
15 Look! The nations are like a drop from a bucket,
and they are counted like dust of the balances!
Look! He weighs the islands like a thin covering.
Isaiah 40:15 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)
15 The nations are only a drop in a bucket to him.
He considers them as nothing but dust on the scales.
He weighs the islands as if they were only fine dust.
Isaiah 40:15 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)
15 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales;
Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust.