Isaiah 40:23

23 He it is who reduces ¹rulers to nothing, Who ²makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

Isaiah 40:23 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 40:23

That bringeth princes to nothing
The great men of the earth, kings, rulers, and nobles, these he brings to the dust; and all their counsels, schemes, and purposes, come to nothing; and their monarchies and kingdoms too in time. Where are now the Babylonish, Persian, and Grecian monarchies, and those great princes that formerly reigned in them? he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity;
their decrees and decisions to stand for nothing, as "tohu" and "bohu", the first of which words is used here; so that they are no more regarded and attended to.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Isaiah 40:23 In-Context

21 Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

23 He it is who reduces rulers to nothing, Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

24 Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth, But He merely blows on them, and they wither, And the storm carries them away like stubble.

25 "To whom then will you liken Me That I would be his equal?" says the Holy One.

Cross References 2

1. Job 12:21; Psalms 107:40; Isaiah 34:12
2. Isaiah 5:21; Jeremiah 25:18-27

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or "void"

Isaiah 40:23

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Isaiah 40:23 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 40:23 In-Context

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