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 little while did Thy holy people possess, Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.

For yet the vision is for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.

For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Yet once more -- it is a little, And I am shaking the heavens and the earth, And the sea, and the dry land,

for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;

Lebanon

Till emptied out on us is the Spirit from on high, And a wilderness hath become a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned.

They joy from the wilderness and dry place, And rejoice doth the desert, and flourish as the rose,

I give in a wilderness the cedar, Shittah, and myrtle, and oil-tree, I set in a desert the fir-pine and box-wood together.

And now, said Jehovah, who is forming me from the belly for a servant to Him, To bring back Jacob unto Him, (Though Israel is not gathered, Yet I am honoured in the eyes of Jehovah, And my God hath been my strength.)

Instead of the thorn come up doth fir, Instead of the brier come up doth myrtle, And it hath been to Jehovah for a name, For a sign age-during -- it is not cut off!

And I have numbered you for the sword, And all of you for slaughter bow down, Because I called, and ye have not answered, I have spoken, and ye have not hearkened, And ye do the evil thing in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed.

and He saith, 'Call his name Lo-Ammi, for ye are not My people, and I am not for you;

and many first shall be last, and last first.

'Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit;

I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation is to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

The fruitful

And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.

Son of man, set thy face the way of Teman, and prophesy unto the south, and prophesy unto the forest of the field -- the south;

For many days remain do the sons of Israel without a king, and there is no prince, and there is no sacrifice, and there is no standing pillar, and there is no ephod and teraphim.

Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house is for high places of a forest!

Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, And fire doth devour among thy cedars.

and in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered,

Thou wilt say, then, 'The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!

General references

but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'