16 Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
16 Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.
16 There aren't enough trees in Lebanon nor enough animals in those vast forests to furnish adequate fuel and offerings for his worship.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.
16 All the wood in Lebanon's forests and all Lebanon's animals would not be enough to make a burnt offering worthy of our God.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 40:16
Commentary on Isaiah 40:12-17
(Read Isaiah 40:12-17)
All created beings shrink to nothing in comparison with the Creator. When the Lord, by his Spirit, made the world, none directed his Spirit, or gave advice what to do, or how to do it. The nations, in comparison of him, are as a drop which remains in the bucket, compared with the vast ocean; or as the small dust in the balance, which does not turn it, compared with all the earth. This magnifies God's love to the world, that, though it is of such small account and value with him, yet, for the redemption of it, he gave his only-begotten Son, John 3:16. The services of the church can make no addition to him. Our souls must have perished for ever, if the only Son of the Father had not given himself for us.