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Isaiah 29:17 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 29 · verse 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?Isaiah 29:17 · King James Version
Isaiah 29:17 in context
15Woe 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?
16Surely 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?
17Is 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?
18And 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.
19The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- esteemedchâshabproperly, to plait or interpenetrateH2803 →
- LebanonLᵉbânôwnLebanon, a mountain range in PalestineH3844 →
- turnedshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- fieldkarmela planted fieldH3759 →
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Those that thought to hide their counsels from the Lord were said to turn things upside down (Isa 29:16), and they intended to do it unknown to God; but God here tells them that he will turn things upside down his way; and let us see whose word shall stand, his or theirs.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-24