Isaiah 40:16

Lebanon is not sufficient fuel, 1 nor its wild animals sufficient for a burnt offering. 1

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

In Context

15Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded like the dust on the scales; 1 see, he weighs the isles as a speck. 1

17All the nations are insufficient before him; they are regarded by him as nothing. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 40:6You have no delight in sacrifice or offering, 1 but you have opened my ears; 1 you have not required burnt offerings or sin offerings. 1

Micah 6:6What should I bring to Yahweh, 1 as I bow down to the high God? 1 Should I come to him with burnt offerings, 1 with calves a year old? 1

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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