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?
Isaiah 29:17 in other translations
| BSB | In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest? |
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| WEB | 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 | 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 | Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned? |
| DARBY | 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? |
| BBE | In a very short time Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will seem like a wood. |
| Webster | 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? |
What does Isaiah 29:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 29:17-24
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Isaiah 29:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 29:17
- Isaiah 32:15
Until 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 19:30
But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
- Hebrews 10:37
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
- Ezekiel 20:46-47
Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
- Psalms 84:6
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
- Hosea 3:4
For 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:
- Habakkuk 2:3
For 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.
- Psalms 107:33
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
- Romans 11:11-17
I 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. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. …
- Isaiah 5:6
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
- Isaiah 63:18
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
- Matthew 21:18-19
Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
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Context
- Isaiah 29:16
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?
- 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?
- Isaiah 29:18
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.
Isaiah 29:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿No será tornado de aquí á muy poco tiempo el Líbano en Carmelo, y el Carmelo será estimado por bosque? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | N’y a-t-il pas encore très peu de temps, et le Liban sera converti en un champ fertile, et le champ fertile sera réputé une forêt? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ist es nicht noch um ein gar Kleines, daß der Libanon sich in ein Fruchtgefilde verwandeln und das Fruchtgefilde dem Walde gleichgeachtet werden wird? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Nonne adhuc in modico et in brevi convertetur Libanus in carmel, et carmel in saltum reputabitur? |