Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
He gave princes to nothing; he made 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.
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.
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 He sitting upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants as locusts; he stretching out the heavens as fine cloth, and he will extend them as a tent to dwell in: 23 He gave princes to nothing; he made the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Also they were not planted: also they were not sown: also their stock took not root in the earth: and he also blew upon them and they will be dried up, and the storm will lift them up as straw.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:21
Proving contempt upon nobles, and he slackened the girdle of the strong.
Psalm 107:40
He poured out contempt upon the nobles, and he will cause them to wander in a waste of not a way.
Jeremiah 25:18-27
Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and her kings, her chiefs, to give them for a waste and for a desolation, and for a hissing and for a cursing; as this day.
Job 34:19-20
Who accepted not the face of chiefs, and looked not upon the rich one before the poor: for his hand made all of them.
Psalm 76:12
He will cut off the spirit of leaders, being terrible to the kings of the earth.
Isaiah 19:13-14
The chiefs of Zoan were foolish, the chiefs of Noph were deceived; and they caused Egypt to wander, the pinnacles of its tribes.
Isaiah 23:9
Jehovah of armies purposed it to profane the pride of all glory, to make light all the honored of the earth.
Isaiah 24:21-22
And it was in that day Jehovah shall review upon the army of the height upon the height, and upon the kings of the earth upon the earth.
Isaiah 34:12
Its nobles shall be called to the kingdom, and none there, and all its chiefs shall be no more.
Luke 1:51-52
He has done strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thought of their heart.
Revelation 19:18-20
That ye might eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains of thousands, and the flesh of the strong, and the flesh of horses, and of them sitting upon them, and the flesh of all, free and servants, and of small and great.