Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
the one who brings princes to nothing; he makes rulers of [the] earth like nothing.
New American Standard Bible
Who
King James Version
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Holman Bible
and makes judges of the earth irrational.
International Standard Version
who brings princes to nothing, and makes void the rulers of the earth.
A Conservative Version
who brings rulers to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
American Standard Version
that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Amplified
It is He who reduces dignitaries to nothing,
Who makes the judges (rulers) of the earth meaningless (useless).
Bible in Basic English
He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.
Darby Translation
that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Julia Smith Translation
He gave princes to nothing; he made the judges of the earth as vanity.
King James 2000
That brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as nothing.
Modern King James verseion
who brings the rulers to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
That he bringeth princes to nothing, and the judges of the earth to dust;
NET Bible
He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing; he makes the earth's leaders insignificant.
New Heart English Bible
who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.
The Emphasized Bible
Who delivereth dignitaries to nothingness, - Judges of earth, like a desolation, hath he made:
Webster
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
World English Bible
who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.
Youngs Literal Translation
He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;
Interlinear
Nathan
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 40:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Comfort For God's People
22 [He is] the one who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants [are] like grasshoppers; the one who stretches out [the] heavens like a veil and spreads them out like tent to live [in], 23 the one who brings princes to nothing; he makes rulers of [the] earth like nothing. 24 Indeed, hardly are they planted; indeed, hardly [are they] sown; indeed, hardly has their shoot taken root in the earth when he blows on them and they wither, and [the] tempest carries them like stubble.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:21
He pours contempt on noblemen, and he loosens [the] girdle of [the] mighty.
Psalm 107:40
[he] pours contempt on princes and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
Jeremiah 25:18-27
Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and its kings, [and] its officials, to make them a site of ruins, a horror, an [object of] hissing, and a curse, as [it is] this day;
Job 34:19-20
who {shows no partiality to officials} and [who] {does not take note of the noble more than of the insignificant}, for all of them [are] the work of his hands?
Psalm 76:12
He cuts off [the] spirit of leaders. [He is to be] feared by [the] kings of [the] earth.
Isaiah 19:13-14
The princes of Zoan have become foolish; the princes of Memphis are deceived; the leaders of her tribes have led Egypt astray.
Isaiah 23:9
Yahweh of hosts has planned it: to defile [the] pride of all glory, to humble all [the] honored ones of [the] earth.
Isaiah 24:21-22
And this shall happen on that day: Yahweh will punish the host of heaven in heaven, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
Isaiah 34:12
Its nobles--but no kingdom is there--shall call, and all its princes shall be nothing.
Luke 1:51-52
He has done a mighty deed with his arm; he has dispersed the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
Revelation 19:18-20
in order that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of military tribunes, and the flesh of the powerful, and the flesh of horses and those seated on them, and the flesh of all [people], both free and slave, and small and great!"