Isaiah 29:17

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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?

For yet a little, very little while, and he that is coming will come, and will not delay.

But many, now first, will be the last; and last, who will be the first.

Therefore I tell you, That the kingdom of God shall be taken away from you, and given to a nation, producing the fruits thereof.

I say then, Have they stumbled so as to fall? God forbid: but by their stumbling salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

Now in the morning, when returning into the city, he was hungry:

Wilt thou say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in?

But this rabble, which knoweth not the law, is accursed.