Parallel Verses
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.
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.
International Standard Version
Lebanon would not provide enough fuel, nor are 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.
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 Behold, all people are in comparison of him, as a drop to a bucketful, and are counted as the least thing that the balance weigheth. Behold, the Isles are in comparison of him, as the shadow of the sunbeam. 16 Lebanon is not sufficient to minister fire for his offering, and all the beasts thereof are not enough to one sacrifice. 17 All people in comparison of him are reckoned as nothing, yea vain vanity and emptiness.
Names
Cross References
Micah 6:6-7
"What acceptable thing shall I offer unto the LORD? Shall I bow my knee to the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, and with calves of a year old?
Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not, but mine ears hast thou opened. Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sin hast thou not required.
Psalm 50:9-12
I will take no bullocks out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
Hebrews 10:5-10
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not have: but a body hast thou ordained me.