16And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? …
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. …
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)The scope of these verses is to show what a great and glorious being the Lord Jehovah is, who is Israel’s God and Saviour. It comes in here, 1. To encourage his people that were captives in Babylon to hope in him, and to depend upon him for deliverance, though they were ever so weak and their oppressors ever so strong. 2. To engage them to cleave to him, and not to turn aside after other gods; for…
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