Isaiah 40:16

And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.

17All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

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Cross References

Psalms 40:6\40:5\O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

Micah 6:6With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:13-18

Evangelical Predictions. ( b. c. 708.) 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord , or being his counsellor hath taught him? 14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? 15 Behold, the… Read the whole commentary →

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