Isa 40:8, 15, 17, 23-24 | ESV | STEP | The grass withers , the flower fades , but the word of our God will stand forever .

Isaiah 40:8

8 ^aThe grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.

Isaiah 40:15

15 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
and are accounted ^bas the dust on the scales;
behold, he takes up ^cthe coastlands like fine dust.

Isaiah 40:17

17 ^dAll the nations are as nothing before him,
they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

Isaiah 40:23-24

23 ^ewho brings princes to nothing,
and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
^fand the tempest carries them off like stubble.