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15 “Look! The nations are like a drop in a bucket,
    and are reckoned as dust on the scales.
Look! He even lifts up the islands like powder!
16 Lebanon would not provide enough fuel,
    nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.[a]
17 All the nations are as nothing before him—
    they are reckoned by him as[b] nothing and chaos.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:16 b-16 So MT LXX; 1QIsaa includes these lines by a later scribe
  2. Isaiah 40:17 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads as less than