Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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 perversion! as clay is the potter esteemed? That the work saith of its maker, 'He hath not made me?' And the framed thing said of its framer, 'He did not understand?' 17 Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned? 18 And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.
Cross References
Isaiah 32:15
Till emptied out on us is the Spirit from on high, And a wilderness hath become a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned.
Psalm 84:6
Those passing through a valley of weeping, A fountain do make it, Blessings also cover the director.
Psalm 107:33
He maketh rivers become a wilderness, And fountains of waters become dry land.
Psalm 107:35
He maketh a wilderness become a pool of water, And a dry land become fountains of waters.
Isaiah 5:6
And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.
Isaiah 35:1-2
They joy from the wilderness and dry place, And rejoice doth the desert, and flourish as the rose,
Isaiah 41:19
I give in a wilderness the cedar, Shittah, and myrtle, and oil-tree, I set in a desert the fir-pine and box-wood together.
Isaiah 49:5-6
And now, said Jehovah, who is forming me from the belly for a servant to Him, To bring back Jacob unto Him, (Though Israel is not gathered, Yet I am honoured in the eyes of Jehovah, And my God hath been my strength.)
Isaiah 55:13
Instead of the thorn come up doth fir, Instead of the brier come up doth myrtle, And it hath been to Jehovah for a name, For a sign age-during -- it is not cut off!
Isaiah 63:18
For a little while did Thy holy people possess, Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.
Isaiah 65:12-16
And I have numbered you for the sword, And all of you for slaughter bow down, Because I called, and ye have not answered, I have spoken, and ye have not hearkened, And ye do the evil thing in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed.
Ezekiel 20:46-47
Son of man, set thy face the way of Teman, and prophesy unto the south, and prophesy unto the forest of the field -- the south;
Hosea 1:9-10
and He saith, 'Call his name Lo-Ammi, for ye are not My people, and I am not for you;
Hosea 3:4
For many days remain do the sons of Israel without a king, and there is no prince, and there is no sacrifice, and there is no standing pillar, and there is no ephod and teraphim.
Micah 3:12
Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house is for high places of a forest!
Habakkuk 2:3
For yet the vision is for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.
Haggai 2:6
For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Yet once more -- it is a little, 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, And fire doth devour among thy cedars.
Matthew 19:30
and many first shall be last, and last first.
Matthew 21:18-19
and in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered,
Matthew 21:43
'Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit;
Romans 11:11-17
I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation is to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;
Romans 11:19-27
Thou wilt say, then, 'The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!
Hebrews 10:37
for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;