Isaiah 29:17
Good News Translation
As the saying goes, before long the dense forest will become farmland, and the farmland will go back to forest.

New Revised Standard Version
Shall not Lebanon in a very little while become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest?

Contemporary English Version
Soon the forest of Lebanon will become a field with crops, thick as a forest.

New American Bible
Surely, in a very little while, Lebanon shall be changed into an orchard, and the orchard be considered a forest!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest?

yet a very

Isaiah 63:18 They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Habakkuk 2:3 For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end, and shall not lie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely come, and it shall not be slack.

Haggai 2:6 For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet one little while, and I will move the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.

Hebrews 10:37 For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come will come and will not delay.

Lebanon

Isaiah 32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert shall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest.

Isaiah 35:1,2 The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily. . . .

Isaiah 41:19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the elm, and the box tree together:

Isaiah 49:5,6 And now saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be his servant, that I may bring back Jacob unto him, and Israel will not be gathered together: and I am glorified in the eyes of the Lord, and my God is made my strength. . . .

Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the shrub, shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the nettle, shall come up the myrtle tree: and the Lord shall be named for an everlasting sign, that shall not be taken away.

Isaiah 65:12-16 I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by slaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you did not hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the things that displease me. . . .

Hosea 1:9,10 And he said: Call his name, Not my people: for you are not my people, and I will not be yours. . . .

Matthew 19:30 And many that are first, shall be last: and the last shall be first.

Matthew 21:43 Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof.

Romans 11:11-17 I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them. . . .

the fruitful

Isaiah 5:6 And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

Ezekiel 20:46,47 Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and drop towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field. . . .

Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

Micah 3:12 Her princes have judged for bribes: and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come among us.

Zechariah 11:1,2 Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars. . . .

Matthew 21:18,19 And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry. . . .

Romans 11:19-27 Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. . . .

Context
Sanctification for the Godly
17Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest?18And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see.…
Cross References
Psalm 84:6
In the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set.

Psalm 107:33
He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of waters into dry ground:

Psalm 107:35
He hath turned a wilderness into pools of waters, and a dry land into water springs.

Isaiah 32:15
Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert shall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest.

Haggai 2:6
For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet one little while, and I will move the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.

Isaiah 29:16
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