Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he takes up the isles as fine dust.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Dust. Hebrew caddak, (Haydock) "as dok fallen. "(Symmachus)
It may signify an atom. (St. Jerome)
If all nations be only like a drop, what portion of it do I occupy? (Calmet; ver. 17.)
