...Lord, or, being his counsellor, hath taught him ? With whom took he counsel ? &c. 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. All nations before...

...judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding ? 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. And Lebanon is not...

...more than an inconsiderable point, in comparison of them. And think upon God, before whom all nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance, Isa. xl. 15. Consider, that your subjects are creatures that God hath made...

...measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ? — Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold he takcth up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not...

...in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smalf dust of the balance ; behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. Yea, all nations...

...the scripture speaks of him comparatively, see how it expresses his greatness ! " 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. And Lebanon is not...

...the ancients." Or if a heathen poet had uttered such language as that of Isaiah, 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 : All nations before...

...works, we must necessarily form very scanty conceptions of that Supreme Being, before whom all nations are as a " drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance." * The apostles, I. observe, delight to use this method of displaying the...

...mountains in scales, and the * 2 Cor. i. 20. t Zech. vi. 13. hills in a balance? — 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. — All nations...

...the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance. 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." And what more mysterious,...