Isaiah 29:17

Is it not yet a very little while, And Lebanon shall be turned, into garden land,—And garden land, for a forest, be reckoned?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

16Your perverseness! As if like clay, the potter could be reckoned; For shall, the thing made say of him that made it, he made me not? Or hath the thing fashioned ever said of him that fashioned it, He hath no understanding.

18Therefore, in that day, shall the deaf hear the words of a book,—And out of gloom and darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see;

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Cross References

Psalms 84:6Passing through the balsam-vale, A place of fountains, they make it, Yea, with blessings, is it covered by the early rain.

Psalms 107:35He turneth A Desert, into a pool of water, and, A Parched Land into springs of water;

Isaiah 32:15Until there be poured out upon us the spirit, from on high,—Then shall the wilderness become, garden-land, And the garden-land, for a forest, be reckoned;

Isaiah 41:19I will set in the desert! Cedar, acacia, and myrtle, and oil-tree,—I will place, in the waste plain, Cypress, holm-oak, and sherbin-cedar, together

Isaiah 55:13Instead of the thorn-bush, shall come up the fir-tree, And instead of the nettle, shall come up the myrtle-tree,—So shall it become unto Yahweh, a Name, A Sign age-abiding, which shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 65:12Therefore will I destine you to the sword, And, ye all, to the slaughter, shall bow down. Because I called and ye answered not, I spake, and ye hearkened not,—But did that which was wicked in mine eyes, And of that wherein I delighted not, ye made choice,

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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