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href="/bsb/isaiah/29.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/isaiah/29.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/29.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Soon—and it will not be very long— the forests of Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will yield bountiful crops.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/29.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/29.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/29.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br /><i>Is</i> 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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/29.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br /><i>Is</i> 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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/29.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Is it not yet just a little while Before Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field, And the fertile field will be considered as a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/29.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Is it not yet just a little while Before Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field, And the fertile field will be considered as a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/29.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Is it not yet just a little while Before Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field, And the fertile field will be considered as a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/29.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Is it not yet just a little while Before Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful orchard, And the fruitful orchard will be counted as a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/29.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/29.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Isn’t it true that in just a little while Lebanon will become an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/29.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Isn&#8217t it true that in just a little while Lebanon will become an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/29.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/29.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Soon the forest of Lebanon will become a field with crops, thick as a forest. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/29.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be counted for a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/29.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />In a very short time Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field will be considered a forest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/29.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />As the saying goes, before long the dense forest will become farmland, and the farmland will go back to forest. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/29.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"In a very little while, will not Lebanon be turned into a garden of fruit, and the garden of fruit seem like a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/29.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/29.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/29.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/29.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/29.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />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? <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/29.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Is it not yet a very little [while], "" And Lebanon has turned into a fruitful field, "" And the fruitful field is reckoned for a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/29.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/29.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Is it not yet a very little and Lebanon turned back to Carmel, and Carmel shall be reckoned for a forest?<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/29.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/29.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />In not more than a little while and a brief time, Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and a fruitful field will be considered to be a forest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/29.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Surely, in a very little while, Lebanon shall be changed into an orchard, and the orchard be considered a forest! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/29.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Shall not Lebanon in a very little while become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest?<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/29.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Behold, a little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be reared as a forest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/29.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Behold, in a little while Lebanon shall change into Karmela, and Karmela shall be considered a forest<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/29.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/29.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br /><i>Is it</i> not yet a little while, and Libanus shall be changed as the mountains of Chermel, and Chermel shall be reckoned as a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/29-17.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=6065" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/29.htm">Sanctification for the Godly</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">17</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: hă·lō·w- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5750.htm" title="5750: ‘ō·wḏ (Adv) -- Or rod; from uwd; properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially, again, repeatedly, still, more.">In a very</a> <a href="/hebrew/4592.htm" title="4592: mə·‘aṭ (Adj-msc) -- A little, fewness, a few. Or miat; from ma'at; a little or few.">short</a> <a href="/hebrew/4213.htm" title="4213: miz·‘ār (Adv) -- A little, a trifle, a few. From the same as ze'eyr; fewness; by implication, as superl. Diminutiveness.">time,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3844.htm" title="3844: lə·ḇā·nō·wn (N-proper-fs) -- A wooded mountain range on the N. border of Isr. From lbab; white mountain; Lebanon, a mountain range in Palestine.">will not Lebanon</a> <a href="/hebrew/7725.htm" title="7725: wə·šāḇ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively; generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.">become</a> <a href="/hebrew/3759.htm" title="3759: lak·kar·mel (Prep-l, Art:: N-ms) -- A plantation, garden land, fruit, garden growth. From kerem; a planted field; by implication, garden produce.">an orchard,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3759.htm" title="3759: wə·hak·kar·mel (Conj-w, Art:: N-ms) -- A plantation, garden land, fruit, garden growth. From kerem; a planted field; by implication, garden produce.">and the orchard</a> <a href="/hebrew/2803.htm" title="2803: yê·ḥā·šêḇ (V-Nifal-Imperf-3ms) -- To think, account. ">seem</a> <a href="/hebrew/3293.htm" title="3293: lay·ya·‘ar (Prep-l, Art:: N-ms) -- From an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure; a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb.">like a forest?</a> </span><span class="reftext">18</span>On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Isaiah 32:15-20</a></span><br />until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest. / Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field. / The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/35-1.htm">Isaiah 35:1-2</a></span><br />The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. / It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/41-18.htm">Isaiah 41:18-19</a></span><br />I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs. / I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/55-12.htm">Isaiah 55:12-13</a></span><br />You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. / Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/61-3.htm">Isaiah 61:3-4</a></span><br />to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified. / They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/36-35.htm">Ezekiel 36:35</a></span><br />Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/9-13.htm">Amos 9:13-15</a></span><br />“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow. / I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. / I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/3-18.htm">Joel 3:18</a></span><br />And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/31-12.htm">Jeremiah 31:12</a></span><br />They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/14-5.htm">Hosea 14:5-7</a></span><br />I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon. / His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon. / They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/11-5.htm">Matthew 11:5</a></span><br />The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/13-16.htm">Matthew 13:16-17</a></span><br />But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. / For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/4-18.htm">Luke 4:18-19</a></span><br />“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, / to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/7-22.htm">Luke 7:22</a></span><br />So He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/9-39.htm">John 9:39</a></span><br />Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">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?</p><p class="hdg">yet a very</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/63-18.htm">Isaiah 63:18</a></b></br> The people of thy holiness have possessed <i>it</i> but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/habakkuk/2-3.htm">Habakkuk 2:3</a></b></br> For the vision <i>is</i> yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/haggai/2-6.htm">Haggai 2:6</a></b></br> For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it <i>is</i> a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry <i>land</i>;</p><p class="hdg">Lebanon</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Isaiah 32:15</a></b></br> Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/35-1.htm">Isaiah 35:1,2</a></b></br> The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/41-19.htm">Isaiah 41:19</a></b></br> I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, <i>and</i> the pine, and the box tree together:</p><p class="hdg">the fruitful</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Isaiah 5:6</a></b></br> And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/20-46.htm">Ezekiel 20:46,47</a></b></br> Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop <i>thy word</i> toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/3-4.htm">Hosea 3:4</a></b></br> For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and <i>without</i> teraphim:</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/29-16.htm">Considered</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-16.htm">Esteemed</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-4.htm">Fertile</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-7.htm">Field</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-8.htm">Forest</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-2.htm">Fruitful</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-20.htm">Little</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-28.htm">Reckoned</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-16.htm">Regarded</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-28.htm">Seem</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-20.htm">Short</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-19.htm">Time</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-27.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-8.htm">Wood</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Considered</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Esteemed</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-12.htm">Fertile</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Field</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Forest</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-12.htm">Fruitful</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-10.htm">Little</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Reckoned</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-15.htm">Regarded</a> <a href="/isaiah/58-2.htm">Seem</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-12.htm">Short</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-8.htm">Time</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-24.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-33.htm">Wood</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 29</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/29-1.htm">God's heavy judgment upon Jerusalem</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/29-7.htm">The insatiableness of her enemies</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/29-9.htm">The senselessness</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/29-13.htm">And deep hypocrisy of the people</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/29-17.htm">A promise of sanctification to the godly</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the context of Isaiah, it often refers to God's swift action in fulfilling His promises or bringing judgment. The prophetic nature of Isaiah's writings frequently emphasizes the certainty and speed of God's interventions in history.<p><b>will not Lebanon become an orchard</b><br>Lebanon, known for its majestic cedars, symbolizes strength and pride. The transformation of Lebanon into an orchard indicates a shift from a place of wild, untamed growth to one of cultivated beauty and productivity. This can be seen as a metaphor for spiritual renewal and blessing. In biblical symbolism, an orchard often represents fruitfulness and divine favor, suggesting a future time of prosperity and spiritual abundance.<p><b>and the orchard seem like a forest?</b><br>The imagery of an orchard becoming a forest implies an even greater transformation, where what is already fruitful and cultivated becomes even more abundant and expansive. This can be interpreted as a promise of God's overwhelming blessings and the expansion of His kingdom. The forest, with its dense and lush growth, symbolizes the fullness of life and the richness of God's provision. This transformation can also be seen as a type of the coming of Christ, where the kingdom of God grows from small beginnings to encompass the whole earth, as seen in parables like the mustard seed (<a href="/matthew/13-31.htm">Matthew 13:31-32</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah is the author of the book that bears his name. He prophesied during a time of great turmoil and change for the nation of Israel.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/l/lebanon.htm">Lebanon</a></b><br>A region known for its majestic cedar trees, Lebanon is often used symbolically in the Bible to represent strength and beauty. In this verse, it symbolizes transformation and renewal.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/o/orchard.htm">Orchard</a></b><br>Represents a place of fruitfulness and abundance. The transformation of Lebanon into an orchard signifies a shift from barrenness to productivity.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/f/forest.htm">Forest</a></b><br>Symbolizes growth, expansion, and the natural order. The orchard becoming like a forest suggests an increase in prosperity and blessing.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/p/prophetic_vision.htm">Prophetic Vision</a></b><br>This event is a prophetic vision of transformation and renewal, indicating a future time of blessing and restoration for God's people.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/transformation_and_renewal.htm">Transformation and Renewal</a></b><br>God's power can transform barren places into fruitful ones. This encourages believers to trust in God's ability to bring renewal in their lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_promises.htm">Hope in God's Promises</a></b><br>The prophecy assures us that God's promises of restoration are certain. We can hold onto hope even in difficult times, knowing that God is faithful.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_growth.htm">Spiritual Growth</a></b><br>Just as the orchard becomes a forest, believers are called to grow spiritually, expanding in faith and bearing fruit for God's kingdom.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_lebanon.htm">Symbolism of Lebanon</a></b><br>Understanding the symbolic use of Lebanon helps us appreciate the depth of God's promises. It reminds us of the beauty and strength that come from God's transformative work.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/a/anticipation_of_god's_timing.htm">Anticipation of God's Timing</a></b><br>The phrase "in just a very short time" encourages patience and anticipation for God's perfect timing in fulfilling His promises.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_29.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 29</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_will_empty_words_comfort_me.htm">What does the Bible mention about Lebanon?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_is_isaiah_17_unfulfilled.htm">Why does Isaiah 17's prophecy appear unfulfilled when compared to other passages predicting judgments on Israel's neighbors that were historically verified?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_isaiah_29_10_align_with_a_just_god.htm">Isaiah 29:10 depicts God causing spiritual blindness; how does this align with a just and loving deity who demands moral accountability? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_isaiah_17_6's_'few_olives'_metaphorical.htm">Does Isaiah 17:6, which mentions only 'a few olives,' reflect an exaggerated or metaphorical claim about desolation that conflicts with known agricultural practices of the region?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/29.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(17) <span class= "bld">Is it not yet a very little while . . .?</span>--The image of the potter does not suggest to Isaiah the thought of an arbitrary sovereignty, but of a love which will in the long run fulfil itself. He paints as not far off the restoration at once of the face of nature and of the life of man. Lebanon, that had been stripped of its cedars by the Assyrian invader (<a href="/isaiah/10-34.htm" title="And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.">Isaiah 10:34</a>), so as to be as the wilderness of <a href="/isaiah/22-15.htm" title="Thus said the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get you to this treasurer, even to Shebna, which is over the house, and say,">Isaiah 22:15</a>, should regain its glory, and once more be as Carmel, or "the fruitful field," while the fields that had rejoiced in the rich growth of herbage and shrubs should attain the greatness of the forests of Lebanon as they had been. (See <a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm" title="Until the spirit be poured on us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.">Isaiah 32:15</a>, where "the wilderness" answers to the "Lebanon" of this verse.) The thought and the language would seem to have been among Isaiah's favourite utterances.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/29.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 17-24.</span> - A RENEWAL OF PROMISE. God's judgment (ver. 14), whatever it is, will pass. In a little while there will be a great change. The lowly will be exalted, the proud abased. From the "meek" and "poor' will be raised a body of true worshippers, who will possess spiritual discernment (ver. 18), while the oppressors and "scorners" will be brought to naught. <span class="accented">When</span> Isaiah expected this change is uncertain; but he holds out the hope of it here, as elsewhere so frequently (<a href="/isaiah/1-24.htm">Isaiah 1:24-31</a>; <a href="/isaiah/2-2.htm">Isaiah 2:2-5</a>; <a href="/isaiah/4-2.htm">Isaiah 4:2-6</a>; <a href="/isaiah/5-13.htm">Isaiah 5:13</a>, etc.), to keep up the spirits of the people and prevent them from sinking into a state of depression and despair. <span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 17.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field</span>. Lebanon, the wild forest, shall become smiling garden-ground, while garden-ground shall revert into wild uncultivated forest. An inversion of the moral condition of Judaea is shadowed forth by the metaphor. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/29-17.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">In just</span><br /><span class="heb">הֲלוֹא־</span> <span class="translit">(hă·lō·w-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a very</span><br /><span class="heb">עוֹד֙</span> <span class="translit">(‘ō·wḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5750.htm">Strong's 5750: </a> </span><span class="str2">Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more</span><br /><br /><span class="word">short</span><br /><span class="heb">מְעַ֣ט</span> <span class="translit">(mə·‘aṭ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4592.htm">Strong's 4592: </a> </span><span class="str2">A little, fewness, a few</span><br /><br /><span class="word">time,</span><br /><span class="heb">מִזְעָ֔ר</span> <span class="translit">(miz·‘ār)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4213.htm">Strong's 4213: </a> </span><span class="str2">Fewness, as superl, diminutiveness</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[will not] Lebanon</span><br /><span class="heb">לְבָנ֖וֹן</span> <span class="translit">(lə·ḇā·nō·wn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3844.htm">Strong's 3844: </a> </span><span class="str2">Lebanon -- a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">become</span><br /><span class="heb">וְשָׁ֥ב</span> <span class="translit">(wə·šāḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn back, in, to retreat, again</span><br /><br /><span class="word">an orchard,</span><br /><span class="heb">לַכַּרְמֶ֑ל</span> <span class="translit">(lak·kar·mel)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3759.htm">Strong's 3759: </a> </span><span class="str2">A plantation, garden land, fruit, garden growth</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and the orchard</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהַכַּרְמֶ֖ל</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hak·kar·mel)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3759.htm">Strong's 3759: </a> </span><span class="str2">A plantation, garden land, fruit, garden growth</span><br /><br /><span class="word">seem</span><br /><span class="heb">יֵחָשֵֽׁב׃</span> <span class="translit">(yê·ḥā·šêḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2803.htm">Strong's 2803: </a> </span><span class="str2">To think, account</span><br /><br /><span class="word">like a forest?</span><br /><span class="heb">לַיַּ֥עַר</span> <span class="translit">(lay·ya·‘ar)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3293.htm">Strong's 3293: </a> </span><span class="str2">A copse of bushes, a forest, honey in the comb</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/29-17.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 29:17 Isn't it yet a very little while (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/29-16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 29:16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 29:16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/29-18.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 29:18"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 29:18" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>