“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.”
Behold, the nations are as a drop from a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales, establishing that the nations of the earth are utterly insignificant in comparison to God. The oracle uses images of measurement and reduction to emphasize the relative nothingness of human and national power. The drop and the speck suggest that what appears great in human perspective is virtually nothing from God's perspective.
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