Isaiah 29:17

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Summary

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?

Yet a very

Lebanon

The fruitful

Romans 11:19

General references

John 7:49

Bible References

Yet a very

For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.

For the message is a witness to what is decreed; it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out. Even if the message is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently; for it will certainly come to pass -- it will not arrive late.

Moreover, the Lord who rules over all says: 'In just a little while I will once again shake the sky and the earth, the sea and the dry ground.

For just a little longer and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.

Lebanon

This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the desert will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest.

Let the desert and dry region be happy; let the wilderness rejoice and bloom like a lily!

I will make cedars, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees grow in the wilderness; I will make evergreens, firs, and cypresses grow together in the desert.

So now the Lord says, the one who formed me from birth to be his servant -- he did this to restore Jacob to himself, so that Israel might be gathered to him; and I will be honored in the Lord's sight, for my God is my source of strength --

Evergreens will grow in place of thorn bushes, firs will grow in place of nettles; they will be a monument to the Lord, a permanent reminder that will remain.

I predestine you to die by the sword, all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, because I called to you, and you did not respond, I spoke and you did not listen. You did evil before me; you chose to do what displeases me."

Then the Lord said: "Name him 'Not My People' (Lo-Ammi), because you are not my people and I am not your God."

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.

The fruitful

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

"Son of man, turn toward the south, and speak out against the south. Prophesy against the open scrub land of the Negev,

For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!

Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars.

Now early in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

Then you will say, "The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."

General references

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!"