Isaiah 40:16

Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

17All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

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Cross References

Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Micah 6:6How shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves 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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