Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

New American Standard Bible

Even Lebanon is not enough to burn,
Nor its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Lebanon is not enough for fuel,
or its animals enough for a burnt offering.

International Standard Version

Lebanon would not provide enough fuel, nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


And [the forests of] Lebanon cannot supply sufficient fuel to start a fire,
Nor are its wild beasts enough for a burnt offering [worthy of the Lord].

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And Lebanon not enough to burn, and its beasts not enough for a burnt-offering.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

And Lebanon [is] not enough to light a fire, and its animals not enough for a burnt offering.

Modern King James verseion

And Lebanon is not enough to burn, nor the beasts of it enough for a burnt offering.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Lebanon is not sufficient to minister fire for his offering, and all the beasts thereof are not enough to one sacrifice.

NET Bible

Not even Lebanon could supply enough firewood for a sacrifice; its wild animals would not provide enough burnt offerings.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

And, Lebanon, is not sufficient to burn, - Nor, the beasts thereof sufficient for an ascending-sacrifice!

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt-offering.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And Lebanon
לבנון 
L@banown 
Usage: 71

is not
אין 
'ayin 
Usage: 50

דּי 
Day 
Usage: 34

to burn
בּער 
Ba`ar 
Usage: 94

nor the beasts
חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

דּי 
Day 
Usage: 34

References

American

Fausets

Hastings

Arm

Watsons

Context Readings

Comfort For God's People

15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance. Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing. 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient for a burnt-offering. 17 All the nations are as nothing before him. They are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.



Cross References

Micah 6:6-7

Why shall I come before LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?

Psalm 40:6

Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, {but a body thou have prepared for me (LXX/NT)}. Whole burnt-offering and sacrifice for sin thou did not require.

Psalm 50:9-12

I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.

Hebrews 10:5-10

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but thou prepared for me a body.

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