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Isaiah 40:23

Authority and leadershipGod's power and sovereignty

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

22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

25 “To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

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BSB
He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.
KJV
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
WEB
who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
ASV
that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
DARBY
that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
BLB
The One giving the rulers to nothingness, He makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
ÅB
den som gjør fyrster til intet, ordens dommere til ingenting;
OTB
Han gjør fyrster ubetydelige og reduserer verdens herskere til ingenting.
B1930
den som gjør fyrster til intet, ordens dommere til ingenting;

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