He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
Isaiah 29:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition 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? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 In just a little while won’t Lebanon become farmland once again, and the farmland be considered a forest? Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and Charmel shall be esteemed as a forest? |
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
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.
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, and the pine, and the box tree together:
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.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
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 without teraphim:
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
For the vision is 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.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.