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“Comfort My People”Isaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind I
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19, 20. To emphasize the greatness of Jehovah, Isaiah uses what graphic word pictures?
19 What about the mighty nations of the earth—can they resist God as he fulfills his word of promise? Isaiah answers by describing the nations as follows: “Look! The nations are as a drop from a bucket; and as the film of dust on the scales they have been accounted. Look! He lifts the islands themselves as mere fine dust.
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“Comfort My People”Isaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind I
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20 To Jehovah, entire nations are as a drop of water falling from a bucket. They are no more than the fine dust that accumulates on a scale, without effect.*
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“Comfort My People”Isaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind I
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The Expositor’s Bible Commentary notes: “Near Eastern marketplace commerce would take no account of the minute water drop in the measuring bucket or a little dust on the scales when meat or fruit was weighed.”
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