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"Changes Are Coming In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest."
— Isaiah 29:17, NET Bible
“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?”
“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? ”
“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?”
“Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest?”
“In a very short time Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will seem like a wood.”
“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?”
Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people– an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.”
Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast,“Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”
Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“He doesn’t understand”?
Changes Are Coming In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest.
At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.
The downtrodden will again rejoice in the LORD; the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel.
For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated–