Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Is it not yet a very little and Lebanon turned back to Carmel, and Carmel shall be reckoned for a forest?
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?
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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Karmel
Karmel
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 29:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Blessing After Punishment
16 Shall not your perverting be reckoned as the potter's clay? for shall the work say to him making it, He made me not? andhebeing formed, say to him forming, He understood not? 17 Is it not yet a very little and Lebanon turned back to Carmel, and Carmel shall be reckoned for a forest? 18 In that day the deaf heard the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of thick darkness, and darkness.
Cross References
Isaiah 32:15
Until the spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and the desert be for Carmel, and Carmel be reckoned for a forest.
Psalm 84:6
Passing through in the valley of Baca they will set it a fountain; also the early rain will cover the ponds.
Psalm 107:33
He will set rivers to a desert, and the findings of waters to thirst;
Psalm 107:35
He will set a desert for pools of water, and a land of dryness for findings of water.
Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it a desolation; it shall not be pruned and it shall not be dressed, and there came up sharp points and thorns: and upon the clouds I will command from raining rain upon it
Isaiah 35:1-2
The desert and the dryness shall be glad for them; and the sterile region shall rejoice and blossom as the meadow flower.
Isaiah 41:19
I will give in the desert the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the tree of oil; I will set in the sterile region the the elm and the box tree together.
Isaiah 49:5-6
And now, said Jehovah, forming me from the belly for servant to him to turn back Jacob to him, And Israel shall not be gathered, and I shall be honored in the eyes of Jehovah, and God was my strength.
Isaiah 55:13
Instead of the thorn-hedge shall come up the cypress; of the briar shall come up the myrtle: and it was to Jehovah for a name for an eternal sigh; it shall not be cut off.
Isaiah 63:18
For a little While the people of thy holy place possessed it: our adversaries trod down thy holy place.
Isaiah 65:12-16
And I numbered you to the sword, and ye all shall bend to the slaughter, because I called, and ye answered not: I spake and ye heard not; and ye will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, ye chose.
Ezekiel 20:46-47
Son of man, set thy face the way of the south, and drop to the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field.
Hosea 1:9-10
And he will say; Call his name, Not my people: for ye are not my people, and I will not be to you.
Hosea 3:4
For many days shall the sons of Israel dwell, not a king and not a chief and not a sacrifice and not a pillar and it one ephod and teraphim
Micah 3:12
For this, on account of you Zion shall be ploughed a field, and Jerusalem shall be ruins, and the mountain of the house for the heights of the forest.
Habakkuk 2:3
For yet the vision for the appointment, and it shall breathe to the end, and it shall not lie: if it shall delay, wait for it; for coming, it will come; and it shall not delay.
Haggai 2:6
For thus said Jehovah of armies; Yet once it is a little, and I shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.
Zechariah 11:1-2
Open the doors, O Lebanon, and fire shall devour among thy cedars.
Matthew 19:30
And many first shall be last, and the last first.
Matthew 21:18-19
And in the morn, having returned into the city, he hungered.
Matthew 21:43
For this I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation doing its fruits.
Romans 11:11-17
I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? It may not be: but by their fall salvation to the nations, to make them jealous.
Romans 11:19-27
Thou wilt say then, That the young shoots were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
Hebrews 10:37
For yet a little while only, he coming will come, and will not tarry.