Add parallel Print Page Options

16 Lebanon would not provide enough fuel,
    nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.[a]
17 All the nations are as nothing before him—
    they are reckoned by him as[b] nothing and chaos.

18 “To whom, then, will you compare me,[c] the One who is[d] God?
    Or to what image will you liken me?[e]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:16 b-16 So MT LXX; 1QIsaa includes these lines by a later scribe
  2. Isaiah 40:17 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads as less than
  3. Isaiah 40:18 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack me
  4. Isaiah 40:18 1QIsaa LXX MT lack the One who is
  5. Isaiah 40:18 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read him

16 Lebanon(A) is not sufficient for altar fires,
    nor its animals(B) enough for burnt offerings.
17 Before him all the nations(C) are as nothing;(D)
    they are regarded by him as worthless
    and less than nothing.(E)

18 With whom, then, will you compare God?(F)
    To what image(G) will you liken him?

Read full chapter