Yesaya 28:29

28:29 This also comes from the Lord who commands armies,

who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom. ¹ 

Yesaya 40:16

40:16 Not even Lebanon could supply enough firewood for a sacrifice; ² 

its wild animals would not provide enough burnt offerings. ³ 

Yesaya 64:12

64:12 In light of all this, ⁴  how can you still hold back, Lord?

How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

[28:29]  ¹ sn Verses 23-29 emphasize that God possesses great wisdom and has established a natural order. Evidence of this can be seen in the way farmers utilize divinely imparted wisdom to grow and harvest crops. God’s dealings with his people will exhibit this same kind of wisdom and order. Judgment will be accomplished according to a divinely ordered timetable and, while severe enough, will not be excessive. Judgment must come, just as planting inevitably follows plowing. God will, as it were, thresh his people, but he will not crush them to the point where they will be of no use to him.

[40:16]  ² tn The words “for a sacrifice” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[40:16]  ³ sn The point is that not even the Lebanon forest could supply enough wood and animals for an adequate sacrifice to the Lord.

[64:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “because of these”; KJV, ASV “for these things.”