Isaiah 29:17

Blessing After Punishment

¹⁶ Oh your perverseness! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath 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 shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and, out of obscurity and out of darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see;

Carmel

Lebanon

Isaiah 32:15

until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

Psalm 84:6

Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a well-spring; yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

Psalm 107:33

He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;

Psalm 107:35

He maketh the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs;

Isaiah 5:6

and I will make it a waste it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 35:1-2

The wilderness and the dry land shall be gladdened; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Isaiah 41:19

I will give in the wilderness the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oleaster; I will set in the desert the cypress, pine, and box-tree together;

Isaiah 49:5-6

And now, saith Jehovah, that formed me from the womb to be his servant, that I should bring Jacob again to him; (though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorified in the eyes of Jehovah, and my God shall be my strength;)

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 63:18

Thy holy people have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Isaiah 65:12-16

I will even assign you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down in the slaughter; because I called, and ye did not answer, I spoke, and ye did not hear; but ye did what was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delight not.

Ezekiel 20:46-47

Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop words against the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;

Hosea 1:9-10

and he said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be for you.

Hosea 3:4

For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without statue, and without ephod and teraphim.

Micah 3:12

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed 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 an appointed time, but it hasteth to the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; for it will surely come, it will not delay.

Haggai 2:6

For thus saith Jehovah 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 shall be last, and last first.

Matthew 21:18-19

But early in the morning, as he came back into the city, he hungered.

Matthew 21:43

Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

Romans 11:11-17

I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.

Romans 11:19-27

Thou wilt say then, The branches have been broken out in order that I might be grafted in.

Hebrews 10:37

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