Isaiah 29:17

Isaiah 29:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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 International Version (NIV)In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Is it not yet a very little while Till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?

Context of Isaiah 29:17

15It will be very bad for people who try to deceive the Lord. They try to hide their thoughts from him. They secretly decide to do evil things. They boast and they say, ‘Nobody can see us. Nobody knows what we are doing.’ 16Your minds are really confused! You think that the clay is more important than the person who uses it to make pots! A bowl cannot say to its maker, ‘You did not make me!’ A pot cannot say to the potter, ‘You do not know what you are doing!’ Very soon, Lebanon's forest will become a field of fruit trees. And the field of fruit trees will seem like a forest. 18At that time, deaf people will be able to hear when someone is reading words from a book. Blind people who have been living in a dark place will be able see what is happening. 19And the Lord will make weak people happy again. Poor people will sing with joy, because of what the Holy God of Israel has done.

Isaiah 29:17 word by word

הֲלוֹא־עוֹד֙ מְעַ֣ט מִזְעָ֔ר וְשָׁ֥ב לְבָנ֖וֹן לַכַּרְמֶ֑ל וְהַכַּרְמֶ֖ל לַיַּ֥עַר יֵחָשֵֽׁב׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• it not yet a veryמִזְעָרmiz‛âr · littleH4213
• little whileמְעַטme‛aţ me‛âţ · littleH4592
• and Lebanonלְבָנוֹןlebânôn · LebanonH3844
• shall be turnedשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• into a fruitful fieldכַּרְמֶלkarmel · plantationH3759
• shall be esteemedחָשַׁבchâshab · to devise: thinkH2803
• as a forestיַ֫עַרya‛ar · woodH3293

Cross-references for Isaiah 29:17

• Isaiah 63:18For only a short time, the holy place belonged to us, your special people. Then our enemies knocked down your temple.
• Habakkuk 2:3What I will show to you must happen at the time that I have decided. That is a future time, but it will certainly happen, as I have said. It may not happen very soon, but you must be patient. What I show to you will certainly happen at the right time, so wait for it.
• Haggai 2:6I, the Almighty Lord also tell you this: Soon, I will cause the sky and the whole earth to shake. I will also cause the sea and the land to shake.
• Hebrews 10:37This is what the Bible says: ‘In a very short time, my special servant will come. He is the one that I promised to send to you. He will not be late.
• Isaiah 32:15It will be like that until God pours a new spirit on us from heaven. Then, deserts will become fields of fruit trees. And fields of fruit trees will seem like forests.
• Isaiah 35:1The desert and the dry land will be happy! The wilderness will be happy too, and beautiful flowers will grow there.
• Isaiah 41:19Many trees will grow in the wilderness. Cedar, acacia, myrtle and olive trees will grow there. In the dry valleys there will be pine, fir and cypress trees.
• Isaiah 49:5The Lord chose me to be his servant, even before I was born. He chose me to bring Jacob's descendants back to himself. He chose me to bring Israel's people together to serve him. As a result, the Lord will honour me. He is the one who makes me strong. The Lord, my God, says,
• Isaiah 55:13Where thorn bushes have been growing, pine trees will grow instead. Myrtle bushes will grow where there are weeds now. Those things will show everyone that the Lord is great. It will be a sign to people for ever.
• Isaiah 65:12So this will be your fate: a sword will kill you. You will all bend down low for someone to kill you. This will happen because you did not answer me when I spoke to you. You did not even listen to my words. You did evil things against me. You chose to do things that I would hate.’
• Hosea 1:9Then the Lord said, ‘Call him Lo-Ammi. This is because you Israelites are not my people. I am not your God.’
• Matthew 19:30But many people who are very important now will become the least important. And many people who are not important now will become very important then.’
• Matthew 21:43I tell you this: Because you do not believe in me, God will take his kingdom away from you. He will give it to people who show that they obey him.
• Romans 11:11So now I ask this: ‘When Israel's people failed to accept Jesus as God's Messiah, did they make themselves separate from God for ever?’ No, certainly that is not true! Because of their mistake, God is now saving Gentiles. God is doing that so that Israel's people would become jealous.
• Isaiah 5:6I will make the land become useless. Nobody will take care of the vines. Nobody will dig the ground. Weeds and thorn bushes will grow there. I will command the clouds, ‘Do not drop any rain on it.’
• Ezekiel 20:46‘Son of man, look towards the south. Speak my message to the people there. Warn the forests in the dry land of the south.

Commentaries on Isaiah 29:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17And Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field "Ere Lebanon become like Carmel" - A mashal, or proverbial saying, expressing any great revolution of things; and, when respecting two subjects, an entire reciprocal change: explained here by some interpreters, I think with great probability, as having its principal view beyond the revolutions then near at hand, to the rejection of the Jews, and the calling of the Gentiles. The first were the vineyard of…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Is it not yet a very little while - The idea here is, you have greatly perverted things in Jerusalem. The time is at hand when there shall be “other” overturnings - when the wicked shall be cut off, and when there shall be poured out upon the nation such judgments that the deaf shall hear, and the blind see, and when those who have erred in spirit shall come to understanding‘ Isaiah 29:18-24. And Lebanon shall be tutored into a fruitful field - This is…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-24Verses 17-24 The wonderful change here foretold, may refer to the affairs of Judah, though it looks further. When a great harvest of souls was gathered to Christ from among the Gentiles, then the wilderness was turned into a fruitful field; and the Jewish church, that had long been a fruitful field, became as a deserted forest. Those who, when in trouble, can truly rejoice in God, shall soon have cause greatly to rejoice in him. The grace of meekness…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17The forests of Lebanon usually picture rich and healthy growth (see Isaiah 2:13; 14:8). They are often a symbol of strength and beauty. But here, the forests represent destruction and emptiness. Instead of life and growth, they show ruin and loss.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. turned--as contrasted with your "turnings of things upside down" (Is 29:16), there shall be other and better turnings or revolutions; the outpouring of the Spirit in the latter days (Is 32:15); first on the Jews; which shall be followed by their national restoration (see on Is 29:2; Zec 12:10) then on the Gentiles (Joe 2:28). fruitful field--literally, "a Carmel" (see on Is 10:18). The moral change in the Jewish nation shall be as great as if the…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 29

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings