KJV King James Version
[Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
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Isaiah 29:17
[Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?
WEB World English Bible
Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
ASV American Standard Version
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?
Surrounding context — Isaiah 29
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
17 [Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek also shall increase [their] joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
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הֲלוֹא־H3808 · lonotעוֹד֙H5750 · odstillמְעַ֣טH4592 · me.atlittleמִזְעָ֔רH4213 · miz.arlittleוְשָׁ֥בH7725 · shuvto return: returnלְבָנ֖וֹןH3844 · le.va.nonLebanonלַכַּרְמֶ֑לH3759 · kar.melplantationוְהַכַּרְמֶ֖לH3759 · kar.melplantationלַיַּ֥עַרH3293 · ya.arwoodיֵחָשֵֽׁב׃H2803 · cha.shavto devise: design
Cross-references
Isaiah 32:15Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.Matthew 19:30But many [that are] first shall be last; and the last [shall be] first.Hebrews 10:37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.Habakkuk 2:3For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.Isaiah 55:13Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be cut off.Isaiah 65:12-16Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose [that] wherein I delighted not.Psalm 107:35He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.Hosea 1:9-10Then said [God], Call his name Loammi: for ye [are] not my people, and I will not be your [God].Ezekiel 20:46-47Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop [thy word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;Psalm 84:6[Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.Hosea 3:4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and [without] teraphim:Micah 3:12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.Haggai 2:6For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it [is] a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land];Isaiah 49:5-6And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb [to be] his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.Romans 11:11-17I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but [rather] through their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.Matthew 21:18-19Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.Romans 11:19-27Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.Psalm 107:33He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
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