Isaiah 29:17

Soon the forests in Lebanon will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fields, and that will happen very soon.

Translation for Translators

In The 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?

In Context

16They are extremely foolish! They act as though they were the potters and I was the clay! Something that was created should certainly never [RHQ] say to the one who made it, ‘You did not make me!’ A jar should never say, ‘The potter who made me did not know what he was doing!’”

18At that time, deaf people will be able to hear; they will be able to hear when someone reads from a book; and blind people will be able to see; they will be able to see things when it is gloomy and even when it is dark.

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Cross References

Psalms 84:6While they travel through the dry Baca Valley, you cause it to become a place where there are springs of water, where the rains ◄in the autumn/before the cold season► fill the valley with pools of water.

Psalms 107:35But sometimes he causes pools of water to appear in deserts, and he causes springs to flow in very dry ground.

Isaiah 32:15It will be like that until God pours his Spirit out on us from heaven. When that happens, the deserts will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fertile fields.

Isaiah 41:19I will plant trees in the desert— cedar trees, acacia trees, myrtle trees, olive trees, cypress trees, fir trees, and pine trees.

Isaiah 55:13Instead of thornbushes and briers, pine/cypress trees and myrtle trees will grow in your land. As a result of that, people will honor me much more; and what I do will remind everyone that I do what I have promised.”

Isaiah 65:12It is I, not Meni, who will decide/say what will happen to you; you will all be slaughtered by swords. That will happen because you did not answer when I called out to you. I spoke to you, but you did not pay attention. Instead, you did things that I said are evil; you chose to do things that do not please me.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:10-17

Threatenings against Judah. ( b. c. 725.) 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is… Read the whole commentary →

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