Isaiah 40:16 Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.

◄ Isaiah 40:16 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.

English Standard Version
Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

New American Standard Bible
Even Lebanon is not enough to burn, Nor its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

King James Bible
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Lebanon is not enough for fuel, or its animals enough for a burnt offering.

International Standard Version
Lebanon would not provide enough fuel, nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.

American Standard Version
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

Darby Bible Translation
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.

Young's Literal Translation
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt-offering.

Cross References

Hebrews 10:5
Why when he comes into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me:

Psalm 50:9
I will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out of your folds.

Micah 6:6
With which shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

Micah 6:7
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

40:12-17 All created beings shrink to nothing in comparison with the Creator. When the Lord, by his Spirit, made the world, none directed his Spirit, or gave advice what to do, or how to do it. The nations, in comparison of him, are as a drop which remains in the bucket, compared with the vast ocean; or as the small dust in the balance, which does not turn it, compared with all the earth. This magnifies God's love to the world, that, though it is of such small account and value with him, yet, for the redemption of it, he gave his only-begotten Son, Joh 3:16. The services of the church can make no addition to him. Our souls must have perished for ever, if the only Son of the Father had not given himself for us.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

16. All Lebanon's forest would not supply fuel enough to burn sacrifices worthy of the glory of God (Isa 66:1; 1Ki 8:27; Ps 50:8-13).

beasts—which abounded in Lebanon.