Parallel Verses

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?

New American Standard Bible

Is it not yet just a little while
Before Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field,
And the fertile field will be considered as a forest?

Holman Bible

Isn’t it true that in just a little while
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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Is it not yet a very
מזער 
Miz`ar 
Usage: 4

מעט מעט 
M@`at 
Usage: 101

and Lebanon
לבנון 
L@banown 
Usage: 71

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

כּרמל 
Karmel 
Usage: 14

and the fruitful field
כּרמל 
Karmel 
Usage: 14

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Blessing After Punishment

16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had 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 the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

Cross References

Isaiah 32:15

Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

Psalm 84:6

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

Psalm 107:33

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

Psalm 107:35

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; 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 solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Isaiah 41:19

I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; 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 that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious 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 everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 63:18

The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Isaiah 65:12-16

Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

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 children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

Micah 3:12

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, 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, it will not tarry.

Haggai 2:6

For thus saith the 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 that are first shall be last; and 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 nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Romans 11:11-17

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

Romans 11:19-27

Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

Hebrews 10:37

For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

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