Isaías 40:17

17 Las naciones del mundo no valen nada para él.
Ante sus ojos, cuentan menos que nada,
son solo vacío y espuma.

Isaías 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.

Isaías 40:17 In-Context

15 No, porque todas las naciones del mundo
no son más que un grano de arena en el desierto.
No son más que una capa de polvo
sobre la balanza.
Él levanta el mundo entero
como si fuera un grano de arena.

16 Toda la madera de los bosques del Líbano
y todos los animales del Líbano no serían suficientes
para presentar una ofrenda quemada digna de nuestro Dios.

17 Las naciones del mundo no valen nada para él.
Ante sus ojos, cuentan menos que nada,
son solo vacío y espuma.

18 ¿Con quién podemos comparar a Dios?
¿Qué imagen se puede encontrar que se le parezca?

19 ¿Se le puede comparar con un ídolo formado en un molde,
revestido de oro y decorado con cadenas de plata?