Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Is it not yet a very little while, And Lebanon shall be turned, into garden land, - And garden land, for a forest, be reckoned?
New American Standard Bible
And the fertile field will be considered as a forest?
King James Version
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?
Holman Bible
Lebanon will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest?
International Standard Version
"In a very little while, will not Lebanon be turned into a garden of fruit, and the garden of fruit seem like a forest?
A Conservative Version
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?
American Standard Version
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?
Amplified
Is it not yet a very little while
Until Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field,
And the fertile field regarded as a forest?
Bible in Basic English
In a very short time Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will seem like a wood.
Darby Translation
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?
Julia Smith Translation
Is it not yet a very little and Lebanon turned back to Carmel, and Carmel shall be reckoned for a forest?
King James 2000
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?
Lexham Expanded Bible
{In a very little while} shall not Lebanon change into fruitful land, and the fruitful land be regarded as forest?
Modern King James verseion
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be counted as a forest?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
See ye not that it is hard at hand, that Lebanon shall be turned into a low field, and that the low field shall be as the wood?
NET Bible
In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest.
New Heart English Bible
Isn't it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
Webster
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?
World English Bible
Isn't it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
Youngs Literal Translation
Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?
Themes
Forests » Illustrative » (a fruitful field turned into,) of the jews rejected by God
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Denounces the hypocrisy of the jews
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 29:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Blessing After Punishment
16 Your perverseness! As if like clay, the potter could he reckoned; For shall, the thing made say of him that made it, he made me not? Or hath the thing fashioned ever said of him that fashioned it, He hath no understanding. 17 Is it not yet a very little while, And Lebanon shall be turned, into garden land, - And garden land, for a forest, be reckoned? 18 Therefore, in that day, shall the deaf hear the words of a book, - And out of gloom and darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see;
Cross References
Isaiah 32:15
Until there be poured out upon us the spirit, from on high, - Then shall the wilderness become, garden-land, And the garden-land, for a forest, be reckoned;
Psalm 84:6
Passing through the balsam-vale, A place of fountains, they make it, Yea, with blessings, is it covered by the early rain.
Psalm 107:33
He turneth Rivers into a desert, and, Springs of Water, into thirsty ground,
Psalm 107:35
He turneth A Desert, into a pool of water, and, A Parched Land into springs of water;
Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it a waste; - It shall be neither pruned nor hoed, But there shall come up briars and thorns, - And upon the clouds, will I lay a charge, That they rain thereon no rain.
Isaiah 35:1-2
Wilderness and parched land, shall be glad for them, - And the waste plain, shall exult, and blossom as the lily:
Isaiah 41:19
I will set in the desert! Cedar, acacia, and myrtle, and oil-tree, - I will place, in the waste plain, Cypress, holm-oak, and sherbin-cedar, together
Isaiah 49:5-6
Now, therefore, said Yahweh - Fashioning me from birth To be Servant to him, To restore Jacob unto him, And that, Israel, unto him, might be gathered And I be honourable in the eyes of Yahweh, And, my God, be proved to have been my strength,
Isaiah 55:13
Instead of the thorn-bush, shall come up the fir-tree, And instead of the nettle, shall come up the myrtle-tree, - So shall it become unto Yahweh, a Name, A Sign age-abiding, which shall not be cut off.
Isaiah 63:18
For a short time only, did thy holy people hold possession, - Our adversaries, trod down thy sanctuary!
Isaiah 65:12-16
Therefore will I destine you to the sword, And, ye all, to the slaughter, shall bow down. Because I called and ye answered not, I spake, and ye hearkened not, - But did that which was wicked in mine eyes, And o that wherein I delighted not, ye made choice,
Ezekiel 20:46-47
Son of man Set thy face the way towards Teman, And drop thy word against the land of the sun, And prophesy unto the forest of the field of the South;
Hosea 1:9-10
Then said he, Call his name Lo-ammi, - for ye are Lo-ammi "No people of mine" , and, I, will not be yours.
Hosea 3:4
For, many days, shall the sons of Israel tarry, without king, and without ruler, and without sacrifice, and without pillar; and without ephod, or household gods.
Micah 3:12
Wherefore, for your sake, Zion, as a field, shall be ploughed, and, Jerusalem, unto heaps of ruins, shall be turned, - and, the mountain of the house, shall be like mounds in a jungle.
Habakkuk 2:3
For yet is the vision for an appointed time, still, it presseth towards an end, and will not deceive, - if it tarry, wait thou for it, for it, surely cometh, - will not be too late.
Haggai 2:6
For, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Yet once, a little, it is, - and I am shaking the heavens and the earth, and the sea and the dry land;
Zechariah 11:1-2
Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, - that a fire, may devour, thy cedar,
Matthew 19:30
But many shall be - first-last, and last-first.
Matthew 21:18-19
And, early, returning into the city, he hungered;
Matthew 21:43
Wherefore I say unto you, The kingdom of God, will be taken away from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof:
Romans 11:11-17
I say then - Did they stumble in order that they might fall? Far be it! But, by their fall, salvation hath come unto the nations, to the end of provoking them to jealousy.
Romans 11:19-27
Thou wilt say, then - Branches were broken out in order that, I, might he grafted in.
Hebrews 10:37
For, yet a little while, how short! how short! The Coming One will be here, and will not tarry;