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Isaiah 40:16

And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, to supply fuel enough for worthy sacrifices to the glory of God, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering, the untold number of animals with which these forests abounded would not be enough fittingly to honor Him by their sacrifice.

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See also Isaiah 40:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 40:16. _AND LEBANON IS NOT SUFFICIENT_] The image is beautiful and uncommon. It has been imitated by an apocryphal writer, who however comes far short of the original: - "For all sacrifi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND LEBANON - The expression here refers to the trees or the cedars of Lebanon. Thus it is rendered by the Chaldee: ‘And the trees of Lebanon.’ For a description of Lebanon, see the note at Isaiah 10:...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE LATER PROPHECIES OF COMFORT AND GLORY (40-66) Like the first part this second part of Isaiah has three sections. The three sections of the first part revealed the judgments to come upon the Je...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    AN EXPANSION OF THE TEXT SUGGESTED IN ISAIAH 40:6. Isaiah 40:12. The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is Insignificant. God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as very small things. N...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NOT SUFFICIENT: i.e. for the wood-offering. Compare Nehemiah 10:39....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The insignificance of collective humanity before Jehovah. The meditation passes from Nature to History, with the same design of encouraging those who doubted Jehovah's power to save. _a drop of a buc...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    So infinitely great is Jehovah that the forests of Lebanon would not yield fuel enough, nor its wild animals victims enough, for a holocaust worthy of Him....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHO HATH MEASURED THE WATERS, &C.— The prophet here, in the most sublime manner, celebrates the divine majesty and greatness, but particularly his wisdom. Rapt into an extacy, after he had described t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. PERCEIVE THE NATURE OF THE LORD TEXT: Isaiah 40:12-26 12 Who hath measured the water in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a me...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. LEBANON IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO BURN - All Lebanon's forests would not supply fuel enough to burn sacrifi...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S RESTORATION FROM EXILE IN BABYLON On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of almost equal length...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 40 This chapter begins the second half of the Book of Isaiah. • In CHAPTER...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Neither the political power nor the military power of the greatest of nations means anything to God....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LEBANON IS NOT SUFFICIENT. — The thought is the same as that of Psalms 50:10. Lebanon is chosen as the type of the forests that supply the wood for burnt-offerings, in which Judah was comparatively po...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ לְבָנֹ֕ון אֵ֥ין דֵּ֖י בָּעֵ֑ר וְ חַיָּתֹ֔ו

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VI GOD: A SACRAMENT Isaiah 40:12 SUCH are the Four Voices which herald the day of Israel's redemption. They are scarcely silent, before the Sun Himself uprises, and horizon after horizon of...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    CREATOR AND RULER OF ALL THE EARTH Isaiah 40:9-17 Zion is bidden to climb the highest mountain within reach, and announce the advent of the Savior-God. When all eyes are turned to behold Him, expecti...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66). The fist el...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Some have thought that the person of God the Father is here spoken of, because the Church is taught to look up to Him with peculiar reverence of character, as the Creator. But, as the church is never...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    16._And Lebanon would not be sufficient. _That is, “If we must sacrifice to God according to what he deserves, neither the whole of Lebanon, nor the beasts that graze upon it, would be sufficient for...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The first part of that which might be called the second book of Isaiah extends from chapter 40 to the end of chapter 48. The Messiah is, comparatively speaking, but little introduced here. It is rathe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND LEBANON IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO BURN,.... The trees of it, as the Targum; these are not sufficient to burn a sacrifice with, suitable to the dignity and majesty of God, and as his justice can require...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering._ Ver. 16. _And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn._] So infinitely great is God; so absolutely insuffi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Behold the nations_, &c. As the drop of a bucket is as nothing when compared with the waters of the immense ocean, so all the nations of the world are as nothing when compared with God; _and are coun...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 nati...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    And although he is pleased to accept of poor and small sacrifices from his people, yet if men were to offer a sacrifice agreeable to his infinite excellency, the whole forest of Lebanon could not affo...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 40:16 Lebanon H3844 not H369 sufficient H1767 burn H1197 (H8763) beasts H2416 sufficient H1767 offering H5930

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GREATNESS OF GOD PROCLAIMED (ISAIAH 40:12). And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital passage the greatness of God to do What He declares He will do is now revealed in...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God._ «They need it, and they shall have it. Mind, O my servants, that you give it to them: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem._ The loss of comfort is no small loss. God would have his people happy. They are in the best conditi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath recei...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Joyful prospect given to the people of God of the happiness of coming redemption. Reproof for their despondencies. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Nothing can be spoken mo...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people._ What a sweet voice is this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon of s...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn_ GOD’S INDEPENDENCE He is not only independent of the power, but also of the goodwill of His creatures. This general allusion to oblation as an act of homage o...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand?_ THE GRANDEUR OF GOD The prophet’s notions of God are diffused through all the verses of the text. The prophet’s design in describing the Dei...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:15 A DROP FROM A BUCKET. Israel may think she could never overcome all the NATIONS of mankind, but they are as NOTHING to God....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.). EXPOSITION...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    But he's talking about a whole new message of God for the people as we get into the new covenant of God. And so it is appropriate that this new section of Isaiah begins with the word of the Lord decla...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hebrews 10:5; Micah 6:6; Micah 6:7; Psalms 40:6; Psalms 50:10...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Lebanon — If men were to offer a sacrifice agreeable to his infinite excellency, the whole forest of Lebanon could not afford either a sufficient number of beasts to be sacrificed: or, a sufficient qu...

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