Isaiah 29:17

Blessing After Punishment

¹⁶ Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, "He didn't make me"? Or should the pottery say about the potter, "He doesn't understand"? ¹⁷ In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest. ¹⁸ At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.

Carmel

Lebanon

Isaiah 32:15

This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the desert will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest.

Psalm 84:6

As they pass through the Baca Valley, he provides a spring for them. The rain even covers it with pools of water.

Psalm 107:33

He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

Psalm 107:35

As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

Isaiah 35:1-2

Let the desert and dry region be happy; let the wilderness rejoice and bloom like a lily!

Isaiah 41:19

I will make cedars, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees grow in the wilderness; I will make evergreens, firs, and cypresses grow together in the desert.

Isaiah 49:5-6

So now the Lord says, the one who formed me from birth to be his servant -- he did this to restore Jacob to himself, so that Israel might be gathered to him; and I will be honored in the Lord's sight, for my God is my source of strength --

Isaiah 55:13

Evergreens will grow in place of thorn bushes, firs will grow in place of nettles; they will be a monument to the Lord, a permanent reminder that will remain.

Isaiah 63:18

For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.

Isaiah 65:12-16

I predestine you to die by the sword, all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, because I called to you, and you did not respond, I spoke and you did not listen. You did evil before me; you chose to do what displeases me."

Ezekiel 20:46-47

"Son of man, turn toward the south, and speak out against the south. Prophesy against the open scrub land of the Negev,

Hosea 1:9-10

Then the Lord said: "Name him 'Not My People' (Lo-Ammi), because you are not my people and I am not your God."

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a hill overgrown with brush!

Habakkuk 2:3

For the message is a witness to what is decreed; it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out. Even if the message is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently; for it will certainly come to pass -- it will not arrive late.

Haggai 2:6

Moreover, the Lord who rules over all says: 'In just a little while I will once again shake the sky and the earth, the sea and the dry ground.

Zechariah 11:1-2

Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars.

Matthew 19:30

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

Matthew 21:18-19

Now early in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

Matthew 21:43

For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

Romans 11:11-17

I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.

Romans 11:19-27

Then you will say, "The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."

Hebrews 10:37

For just a little longer and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.