Isaiah 40:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Isaiah 40:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Lebanon - The expression here refers to the trees or the cedars of Lebanon. Thus it is rendered by the Chaldee: ‘And the trees of Lebanon.’ For a description of Lebanon, see the note at Isai...
Isaiah 40:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

An Expansion of the Text Suggested in Isaiah 40:6-8 . Isaiah 40:12-17 . The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is Insignificant. God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as very sm...
Isaiah 40:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

not sufficient: i.e. for the wood-offering. Compare Nehemiah 10:39 .
Isaiah 40:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16. And Lebanon would not be sufficient. That is, “If we must sacrifice to God according to what he deserves, neither the whole of Lebanon, nor the beasts that graze upon it, would be suffic...
Isaiah 40:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. And Lebanon is not sufficient - The image is beautiful and uncommon. It has been imitated by an apocry...
Isaiah 40:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Who hath measured the waters, &c.— The prophet here, in the most sublime manner, celebrates the divine majesty and greatness, but particularly his wisdom. Rapt into an extacy, after he had desc...
Isaiah 40:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. Lebanon is not sufficient to burn - All Lebanon's forests would not supply fuel enough to burn s...
Isaiah 40:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Restoration from Exile in Babylon On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of almost equal leng...
Isaiah 40:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lebanon is not sufficient. — The thought is the same as that of Psalms 50:10-12 . Lebanon is chosen as the type of the forests that supply the wood for burnt-offerings, in which Judah was comparat...
Isaiah 40:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1-31 ; Isaiah 41:1-29 ; Isaiah 42:1-25 ; Isaiah 43:1-28 ; Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13 ; Isaiah 47:1-15 ; Isaiah 48:1-22 ; Isaiah 49:1...
Isaiah 40:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Creator and Ruler of All the Earth Isaiah 40:9-17 Zion is bidden to climb the highest mountain within reach, and announce the advent of the Savior-God. When all eyes are turned to behold Him, e...
Isaiah 40:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66). The fist...
Isaiah 40:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Some have thought that the person of God the Father is here spoken of, because the Church is taught to look up to Him with peculiar reverence of character, as the Creator. But, as the church is never...
Isaiah 40:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn ,.... The trees of it, as the Targum; these are not sufficient to burn a sacrifice with, suitable to the dignity and majesty of God, and as his justice can requ...
Isaiah 40:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. Ver. 16. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn. ] So infinitely great is God; so absolutely insuf...
Isaiah 40:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold the nations , &c. As the drop of a bucket is as nothing when compared with the waters of the immense ocean, so all the nations of the world are as nothing when compared with God; and are...
Isaiah 40:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Evangelical Predictions. B. C. 708. 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of h...
Isaiah 40:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And although he is pleased to accept of poor and small sacrifices from his people, yet if men were to offer a sacrifice agreeable to his infinite excellency, the whole forest of Lebanon could not aff...
Isaiah 40:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Greatness Of God Proclaimed ( Isaiah 40:12-31 ). And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital passage the greatness of God to do What He declares He will do is now reve...
Isaiah 40:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 40:1-2 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath...
Isaiah 40:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 40:1 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people. What a sweet voice is this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon o...
Isaiah 40:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand? The grandeur of God The prophet’s notions of God are diffused through all the verses of the text. The prophet’s design in describing the...
Isaiah 40:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

PART III . ISAIAH 'S LATER PROPHECIES ( CH . 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION ( Isaiah 40:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Prefatory Remarks THE A...
Isaiah 40:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jehovah the Supreme Ruler. The connection of thought between this section and the foregoing one is this, that the majesty and glory of God over against the idolatry of the heathen nations guarantee...
Isaiah 40:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 10:5-10 ; Micah 6:6 ; Micah 6:7 ; Psalms 40:6 ; Psalms 50:10-12
Isaiah 40:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lebanon — If men were to offer a sacrifice agreeable to his infinite excellency, the whole forest of Lebanon could not afford either a sufficient number of beasts to be sacrificed: or, a sufficient...

Isaiah 40:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 40:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 40:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 40:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 40:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 40:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 40:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 40:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 40:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 40:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 40:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 40:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 40:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 40:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes