Isaiah 41:24

41:24 Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent;

the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting. ¹ 

Isaiah 41:29

41:29 Look, all of them are nothing, ² 

their accomplishments are nonexistent;

their metal images lack any real substance. ³ 

Isaiah 40:17

40:17 All the nations are insignificant before him;

they are regarded as absolutely nothing. ⁴ 

Daniel 4:35

4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. ⁵ 

He does as he wishes with the army of heaven

and with those who inhabit the earth.

No one slaps ⁶  his hand

and says to him, ‘What have you done?’

[41:24]  ¹ tn Heb “an object of disgust [is he who] chooses you.”

[41:29]  ² tc The Hebrew text has אָוֶן (’aven, “deception,” i.e., “false”), but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has אין (“nothing”), which forms a better parallel with אֶפֶס (’efes, “nothing”) in the next line. See also 40:17 and 41:12.

[41:29]  ³ tn Heb “their statues are wind and nothing”; NASB “wind and emptiness”; NIV “wind and confusion.”

[40:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “[as derived] from nothing and unformed.”

[4:35]  ⁵ tc The present translation reads כְּלָא (kÿla’), with many medieval Hebrew MSS, rather than כְּלָה (kÿlah) of BHS.

[4:35]  ⁶ tn Aram “strikes against.”