Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

The nations

Isaiah 40:22
[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in,
Job 34:14
If he sets his heart upon himself, [if] he gathers his spirit and his breath to himself,
Jeremiah 10:10
But LORD is the TRUE God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

The isles

Isaiah 11:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that LORD will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from
Isaiah 41:5
The isles have seen, and fear. The ends of the earth tremble, they draw near, and come.
Isaiah 59:18
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies. He will repay recompense to the islands.
Isaiah 66:19
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory, a
Genesis 10:5
From these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, every man according to his tongue, according to their families, in their nations.
Daniel 11:18
After this he shall turn his face to the isles, and shall take many. But a ruler shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease. Yea, moreover, he shall cause his reproach to turn upon him.
Zephaniah 2:11
LORD will be terrible to them, for he will famish all the gods of the earth. And men shall worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles of the nations.