Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 29:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Blessing After Punishment
16
Surely your subversion shall be as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He did not make me? or shall the vessel say of him that made it, He did not understand?
17
And the fertile field will be considered as a forest?
Cross References
Isaiah 32:15
until the spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness is turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is counted for a forest.
Psalm 84:6
who passing through the valley of Baca, shall make it a well; the rain also shall fill the pools.
Psalm 107:33
He turned rivers into a wilderness and the watersprings into dry ground;
Psalm 107:35
He turns the wilderness into reservoirs of water and dry ground into watersprings.
Isaiah 5:6
And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up there; I will even command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Isaiah 35:1-2
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the lily.
Isaiah 41:19
I will bring forth in the wilderness cedars, thorns, myrtles, and olive trees; I will set in the desert the fir tree and the pine and the box tree together:
Isaiah 49:5-6
And now, saith the LORD, he that formed me from the womb to be his slave, so that Jacob might be converted unto him. But if Israel will not be gathered, even so, yet I shall be esteemed in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be 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 the LORD for a name, for an eternal sign that shall not be cut off.
Isaiah 63:18
The people of thy holiness have possessed the promised land but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Isaiah 65:12-16
I also will destine you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter because when I called, ye did not respond; I spoke, and ye did not hear, but did evil before my eyes and did choose that which displeased me.
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 south field;
Hosea 1:9-10
Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Hosea 3:4
For the sons of Israel shall abide many days without king and without Lord and without sacrifice and without image, and without ephod and without teraphim;
Micah 3:12
Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie; though it tarry, wait for it because it will surely come; wait for it.
Haggai 2:6
For thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Yet even once, 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 that are first shall be last, and many of the last shall be first.
Matthew 21:18-19
Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
Matthew 21:43
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a people bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Romans 11:11-17
I say then, Have they stumbled in such a manner that they should fall completely? No, in no wise; but rather through their fall, saving health is come unto the Gentiles to provoke them unto jealousy.
Romans 11:19-27
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.
Hebrews 10:37
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come and will not tarry.