Parallel ISA 40:15

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BSB  ⇔ 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.

OEB  ⇔ See! Nations are nothing but a drop on a bucket,
⇔ they count but as dust on a balance;
 ⇔ he lifted the isles like a mote.

WEB Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket,
⇔ and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance.
⇔ Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

NET Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket;
 ⇔ they are regarded as dust on the scales.
 ⇔ He lifts the coastlands as if they were dust.

LSV Behold, nations [are] as a drop from a bucket,
And have been reckoned as small dust of the balance,
Behold, He takes up islands as a small thing.

FBV It's obvious that the nations are just a drop in a bucket. They're like dust on a set of scales. He can pick up islands as if they weigh next to nothing.

T4T  ⇔ Yahweh considers that the nations are as insignificant as [MET] one drop from a bucket full of water.
⇔ They are as insignificant as dust on scales.
 ⇔ He is able to weigh islands
⇔ as though they weighed no more than grains of sand.

LEB  • The nations are like a drop from a bucket, and they are counted like dust of the balances! •  Look! He weighs the islands like a thin covering.

BBE See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.

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JPS Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold the isles are as a mote in weight.

ASV Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

DRA Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust.

YLT Lo, nations as a drop from a bucket, And as small dust of the balance, have been reckoned, Lo, isles as a small thing He taketh up.

DBY Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the isles as an atom.

RV Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

WBS Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

KJB Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

BB Beholde, all people are in comparison of hym as a droppe of a bucket full, and are counted as the least thyng that the ballaunce wayeth: yea and the Isles he taketh vp as a very litle thyng.
  (Behold, all people are in comparison of him as a droppe of a bucket full, and are counted as the least thing that the ballaunce wayeth: yea and the Isles he taketh up as a very little thing.)

GNV Beholde, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the dust of the balance: beholde, he taketh away the yles as a litle dust.
  (Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the dust of the balance: behold, he taketh away the yles as a little dust.)

CB Beholde, all people are in coparison of him, as a droppe to a bucketfull, and are counted as the leest thinge yt the balaunce weyeth. Beholde, ye Iles are in comparison of him, as the shadowe of the Sonne beame.
  (Behold, all people are in coparison of him, as a droppe to a bucketfull, and are counted as the least thing it the balaunce weyeth. Behold, ye/you_all Iles are in comparison of him, as the shadowe of the Son beame.)

WYC Lo! folkis ben as a drope of a boket, and ben arettid as the tunge of a balaunce; lo!
  (Lo! folks/people been as a drope of a boket, and been arettid as the tunge of a balaunce; lo!)

LUT Siehe, die Heiden sind geachtet wie ein Tropfen, so im Eimer bleibt, und wie ein Scherflein, so in der Wage bleibet. Siehe, die Inseln sind wie ein Stäublein.
  (Siehe, the Heiden are geachtet like a Tropfen, so in_the Eimer bleibt, and like a Scherflein, so in the Wage bleibet. Siehe, the Inseln are like a Stäublein.)

CLV Ecce gentes quasi stilla situlæ, et quasi momentum stateræ reputatæ sunt; ecce insulæ quasi pulvis exiguus.
  (Behold gentes as_if stilla situlæ, and as_if momentum stateræ reputatæ sunt; ecce insulæ as_if pulvis exiguus.)

BRN since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, and shall be counted as spittle?

BrLXX Εἰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ὡς σταγὼν ἀπὸ κάδου, καὶ ὡς ῥοπὴ ζυγοῦ ἐλογίσθησαν, ὡς σίελος λογισθήσονται;
  (Ei panta ta ethnaʸ hōs stagōn apo kadou, kai hōs ɽopaʸ zugou elogisthaʸsan, hōs sielos logisthaʸsontai?)