Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Lebanon would not provide enough fuel, nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.
New American Standard Bible
Nor its
King James Version
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
Holman Bible
or its animals enough for a burnt offering.
A Conservative Version
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient 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.
Themes
the Burnt offering » The most costly, no adequate tribute to God
Lebanon » Forests of, infested with wild beasts
Interlinear
'ayin
Chay
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 40:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Comfort For God's People
15 "Look! The nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are reckoned as dust on the scales. Look! He even lifts up the islands like powder! 16 Lebanon would not provide enough fuel, nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering. 17 All the nations are as nothing before him they are reckoned by him as nothing and chaos.
Names
Cross References
Micah 6:6-7
How am I to present myself in the LORD's presence and bow in the presence of the High God? Should I present myself with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
Psalm 40:6
You take no delight in sacrifices and offerings you have prepared my ears to listen you require no burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin.
Psalm 50:9-12
I will no longer accept a sacrificial bull from your household; nor goats from your pens.
Hebrews 10:5-10
For this reason, the Scriptures say, when the Messiah was about to come into the world: "You did not want sacrifices and offerings, but you prepared a body for me.