Isaiah 40:16 · KJV
“And Lebanon {is} not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.”
— Isaiah 40:16
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.
All nations before him {are} as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40 — Context
With whom took he counsel, and {who} instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? {instructed...: Heb. made him understand} {understanding: Heb. understandings?}
15Behold, 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.
16And Lebanon {is} not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17All nations before him {are} as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Cross References
Micah 6:6-7
Wherewith 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? {of a...: Heb. sons of a year?}
Psalms 50:9-12
I will take no bullock out of thy house, {nor} he goats out of thy folds.
Psalms 40:6
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. {opened: Heb. digged}
Hebrews 10:5-10
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: {hast...: or, thou hast fitted me}