Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
who brings rulers to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
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.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
the one who brings princes to nothing; he makes rulers of [the] earth like 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 [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, 23 who brings rulers to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Yea, they have not been planted. Yea, they have not been sown. Yea, their stock has not taken root in the earth. Moreover he blows upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:21
He pours contempt upon rulers, and weakens the strength of the strong.
Psalm 107:40
He pours contempt upon rulers, and causes them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.
Jeremiah 25:18-27
Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of it, and the rulers of it, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day,
Job 34:19-20
who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.
Psalm 76:12
He will cut off the spirit of rulers. He is fearful to the kings of the earth.
Isaiah 19:13-14
The rulers of Zoan have become fools. The rulers of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, the chief of her tribes.
Isaiah 23:9
LORD of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
Isaiah 24:21-22
And it shall come to pass in that day, that LORD will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
Isaiah 34:12
They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there. And all its rulers shall be nothing.
Luke 1:51-52
He did a mighty work by his arm. He scattered the proud in the mentality of their heart.
Revelation 19:18-20
so that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit upon them, and the flesh of all men, both freemen and bondmen, and both small and great.