Isaiah 40:17 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַגּוֹיִ֖ם	ha.go.Yim	the nations	H1471 →
כְּאַ֣יִן	ke.'A.yin	[are] as nothing	H369 →
נֶגְדּ֑וֹ	neg.Do	before him	H5048 →
מֵאֶ֥פֶס	me.'E.fes	from nothingness	H657 →
וָתֹ֖הוּ	va.To.hu	and emptiness	H8414 →
נֶחְשְׁבוּ־	nech.she.vu-	they are regarded	H2803 →
לֽוֹ׃	lo	by him

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
leads to
- Psalms 39:5
  You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Isaiah 40:15
  Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
- Psalms 118:9
  It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.
- Psalms 39:11
  You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Through
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 11:5
  I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”
Through
Job 25:6
how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
leads to
- Isaiah 41:14
  Do not fear, O worm of Jacob, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
- Psalms 22:6
  But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
Through
Isaiah 29:7
All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,
leads to
- Job 20:8
  He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.Daniel 4:34–35But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.Psalms 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?Isaiah 29:7All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,Isaiah 41:11Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.1 Corinthians 3:7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.Psalms 113:4The LORD is exalted over all the nations, His glory above the heavens.Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah Isaiah 40:22He 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.1 Corinthians 10:19Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?Job 25:6how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”2 Corinthians 12:11I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.Hebrews 2:6But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

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