Isaiah 40:16
Good News Translation
All the animals in the forests of Lebanon are not enough for a sacrifice to our God, and its trees are too few to kindle the fire.

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

Contemporary English Version
The cattle on the mountains of Lebanon would not be enough to offer as a sacrifice to God, and the trees would not be enough for the fire.

New American Bible
Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor its animals be enough for burnt offerings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

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And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

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Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require:

Psalm 60:10-12 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go out with our armies? . . .

Micah 6:6,7 What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old? . . .

Hebrews 10:5-10 Wherefore, when he cometh into the world he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me. . . .

Context
Here is Your God!
15Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust. 16And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.17All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.…
Cross References
Hebrews 10:5
Wherefore, when he cometh into the world he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me.

Psalm 50:9
I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.

Micah 6:6
What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old?

Micah 6:7
May the Lord be appeased with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat he goats? shall I give my firstborn for my wickedness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Isaiah 40:15
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