Isaiah 40:16

Isaiah chapter 40 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.15Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

v.16This passage

v.17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Hebrews 10:5
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me;
Psalms 40:6
Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.
Psalms 50:9
I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds.
Micah 6:6
Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?