Isaiah 29:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Shall not Lebanon in a very little while become a fruitful field and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ 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 Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field esteemed as a forest?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ 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?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ In just a little while won’t Lebanon become farmland once again, and the farmland be considered a forest?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ 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.

Isaiah 29:17 Cross References

Isaiah 32:15

until a spirit from on high is poured out on us, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.

Matthew 19:30

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.

Hebrews 10:37

For yet “in a very little while, the one who is coming will come and will not delay,

Haggai 2:6

For thus says the Lord of hosts: Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land,

Habakkuk 2:3

For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple a wooded height.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites shall remain many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.

Isaiah 63:18

Your holy people took possession for a little while, but now our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle, and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 41:19

I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together,

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Psalm 107:35

He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.

Psalm 107:33

He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into thirsty ground,

Psalm 84:6

As they go through the valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.

Matthew 21:43

“Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces its fruits.