Isaiah 29:17

¹⁵ Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

¹⁶ Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

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?

¹⁸ And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

¹⁹ The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?
KJV: 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?
WEB: 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?
ASV: 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?
DARBY: 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?
BLB: [Is] it not yet very a little while [that] Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be considered a forest?

ÅB: Enda bare en liten stund, så skal Libanon bli til fruktbar mark, og den fruktbare mark aktes som skog.
OTB: Er det ikke snart at Libanon vil bli forvandlet til et fruktbart felt, og det fruktbare feltet vil bli ansett som en skog?
B1930: Ennu bare en liten stund, så skal Libanon bli til fruktbar mark, og den fruktbare mark aktes som skog.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 32:15
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.
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Matthew 19:30
But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
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Hebrews 10:37
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
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Ezekiel 20:46–47
Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
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Psalms 84:6
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
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Hosea 3:4
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:
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Habakkuk 2:3
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.
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Psalms 107:33
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
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