Isaiah 29:17

Blessing After Punishment

¹⁶ Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay, that the thing made should say of him who made it, He did not make me, or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding? 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? ¹⁸ And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

Carmel

Lebanon

Isaiah 32:15

until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.

Psalm 84:6

Passing through the valley of weeping they make it a place of springs. Yea, the early rain covers it with blessings.

Psalm 107:33

He turns rivers into a wilderness, and water springs into a thirsty ground,

Psalm 107:35

He turns a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste. It shall not be pruned nor hoed, but there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 35:1-2

The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad. And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Isaiah 41:19

I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil tree. I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together,

Isaiah 49:5-6

And now says LORD who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of LORD, and my God has become my strength),

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree. And it shall be to LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 63:18

Thy holy people possessed [it] but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Isaiah 65:12-16

I will destine you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter. Because when I called, ye did not answer, when I spoke, ye did not hear, but ye did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I did not deli

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 field in the South.

Hosea 1:9-10

And [LORD] said, Call his name Lo-ammi, for ye are not my people, and I will not be yours.

Hosea 3:4

For the sons of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without ruler, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim.

Micah 3:12

Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Habakkuk 2:3

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hastens toward the end, and shall not lay. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come. It will not delay.

Haggai 2:6

For thus says LORD of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.

Zechariah 11:1-2

Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

Matthew 19:30

But many first will be last, and last, first.

Matthew 21:18-19

Now early while returning to the city, he was hungry.

Matthew 21:43

Because of this I say to you, that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

Romans 11:11-17

I say then, did they stumble so that they would fall? May it not happen! But in their transgression, salvation is to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.

Romans 11:19-27

Thou will therefore say, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.

Hebrews 10:37

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