Isaia 40:17

17 Tutte le genti sono come un niente nel suo cospetto; son da lui reputate men di nulla, e per una vanità.

Isaia 40:17 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 40:17

All nations before him are as nothing
As if they were nonentities, and were not real beings in comparison of him, who is the Being of beings, the author of all beings which exist in all nations; who are all in his sight, and are not only as grasshoppers, as is after mentioned, but even as nothing: and they are counted to him as less than nothing, and vanity;
if there is or could be such a thing less than nothing, that they are; and so they are accounted of by him; they are like the chaos out of which the earth was formed, when it was "tohu" and "bohu", the first of which words is used here; this serves to humble the pride of men, and to lessen the glory of the nations, and the inhabitants of them.

Isaia 40:17 In-Context

15 Ecco, le genti sono come una gocciola della secchia, e son reputate come la polvere minuta delle bilance; ecco, egli può trasportar le isole di luogo in luogo, come polvere minuta.
16 E il Libano non basterebbe per lo fuoco, e le bestie che sono in quello non basterebbero per l’olocausto.
17 Tutte le genti sono come un niente nel suo cospetto; son da lui reputate men di nulla, e per una vanità.
18 Ed a cui assomigliereste Iddio, e qual sembianza gli adattereste?
19 Il fabbro fonde la scultura, e l’orafo vi distende su l’oro, da coprirla; e le fonde de’ cancelli di argento.
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