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Where does the saying a drop in the bucket come from?

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  • Jeremiah
  • Isaiah
  • Ezekiel
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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.”

Isaiah 40:15 · KJV

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