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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Isaiah 29:17

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? The reference is to the time of the Messiah, when the hearts of men, moral deserts without the Lord, will be reclaimed so as to bear fruits of righteousness.

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See also Isaiah 29:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 29:17. _AND LEBANON SHALL BE TURNED INTO A FRUITFUL FIELD_ - "Ere Lebanon become like Carmel"] A mashal, or proverbial saying, expressing any great revolution of things; and, when respec...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IS IT NOT YET A VERY LITTLE WHILE - The idea here is, ‘you have greatly perverted things in Jerusalem. The time is at hand when there shall be “other” overturnings - when the wicked shall be cut off,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 29 The Second Woe Against Ariel and the Third Woe 1. _The fall of Ariel (Jerusalem) predicted (Isaiah 29:1)_ 2. _Their enemies dealt with by Jehovah (Isaiah 29:5)_ 3. The people's condition:...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The expressions here were perhaps proverbial; they are almost exactly repeated in ch. Isaiah 32:15. _yet a very little while_ as in ch. Isaiah 10:25 (cf. Isaiah 16:14). _Lebanon_is here a synonym for...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 29:15-24 A Messianic forecast The third "Woe" (Isaiah 29:15), directed against the political intrigue with Egypt, merely serves as a point of attachment for a glowing description of the regene...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 901 THE MILLENNIAL PERIOD FAST APPROACHING Isaiah 29:17. _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IS IT NOT YET A VERY LITTLE WHILE, &C.— The prophet here proceeds to set forth this spiritual judgment upon the greater part of the Jewish nation obliquely, by foretelling the call of the Gentiles, wh...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    5. SANCTIFICATION TEXT: Isaiah 29:17-24 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? 18 And in th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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? LEBANON SHALL BE TURNED - As contrasted with your 'turnin...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WARNINGS TO JUDAH These Chapter s refer to the state of affairs during the reign of Hezekiah, when Palestine was threatened by Assyria, and an influential party in Judah favoured resistance, relying...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘Very soon’, that is, as God measures time. God’s sense of time is very different from ours (see 2 Peter 3:8)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 29 THE FATE OF *JERUSALEM V1 *Woe to *Jerusalem, the city of David! It will not matt...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IS IT NOT YET A VERY LITTLE WHILE...? — The image of the potter does not suggest to Isaiah the thought of an arbitrary sovereignty, but of a love which will in the long run fulfil itself. He paints as...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ לֹוא ־עֹוד֙ מְעַ֣ט מִזְעָ֔ר וְ שָׁ֥ב

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is the first of a series of declamations concerning the chosen people, and sets forth the purpose of Jehovah in judgment. The message opens with a description of the judgment (verses Isa 29:1-4),...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be (p) turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? (p) Will there not be a change of all things? Carmel...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Charmel. This word signifies a fruitful field. (Challoner) --- Shall Carmel be presently a forest or barren mountain? No. But I will work a greater miracle, ver. 18. Jerusalem shall rejoice, and Senn...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here the Lord comes in with sweet promises, for the Lord still favors his people, and will have mercy upon Israel. Hence, therefore, here are blessings of fruitfulness promised; blind eyes are to be o...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    17._Is it not yet a little while? _The Lord now declares that he will make those wicked men to know who they are; as if he had said, “You are now asleep in your pride, but I shall speedily awake you.”...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Jerusalem is reduced to the last extremity. But this time Jehovah appears for her deliverance, and the multitude of her enemies disappear as a dream of the night. Everything is dark and gloomy as to t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [IS] IT NOT YET A VERY LITTLE WHILE,.... In a short space of time, in a few years, what follows would come to pass; when there would be a strange change and alteration made in the world, and by which...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Isaiah 29:17 [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? Ver. 17. _Is it yet not a very little while?...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Is it not a very little while_, &c. The following paragraph, to the end of the chapter, relates to the times of the gospel; the prophet foretelling therein, in figurative language, the rejection of t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    17-24 The wonderful change here foretold, may refer to the affairs of Judah, though it looks further. When a great harvest of souls was gathered to Christ from among the Gentiles, then the wilderness...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The forest of Lebanon, which was a barren mountain and a desolate wilderness, shall by God's wonderful providence become a fruitful and populous place; and these places, which are now fruitful and pop...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 29:17 very H4213 while H4592 Lebanon H3844 turned H7725 (H8804) field H3759 field H3759 esteemed H2803 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    IF THEY WERE WISE THEY WOULD RECOGNISE THAT GOD HAS EVERYTHING IN HAND (ISAIAH 29:17). For the truth is that Yahweh, the Potter, will take the poor and the lowly and will work on them to make of them...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE THIRD WOE: AGAINST THOSE WHO SEEK TO HIDE WHAT THEY DO FROM GOD, BUT YAHWEH WILL TRIUMPH IN SPITE OF IT (ISAIAH 29:15). Analysis. a Woe to those who seek deep, to hide their counsel from Yahweh,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings to Judah and Jerusalem of impending discipline. The blessing after the final deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Those who are formal and hypocritical in the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 29:1. _Woe to Ariel,_ the lion of God, or the strong lion, for _El_ is often rendered _strong_ or _rock,_ as in Psalms 42:9. “God my rock.” The city of Jerusalem was that strong rock, or strong...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field_ THE FRUITFUL FIELD AND THE FOREST The comparison is evidently not between the high and the low, but between the cultivated and the wild, the field and...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 29:17 Despite human unbelief, God plans to transform the moral order of the world. The metaphors of v. Isaiah 29:17 are explained in vv....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 29:1 A WARNING TO JERUSALEM. Expostulation is followed by threats. The prophet is aware that all his preaching to the authorities in Jerusalem (Isaiah 28:14) will be of no avail, an...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 29, the woe unto Jerusalem. Ariel means the lion of God. It is one of the names for Jerusalem. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, [the lion of God] the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 20:46; Ezekiel 20:47; Habakkuk 2:3; Haggai 2:6; Hebrews 10:37

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    As a forest — The forest of Lebanon, which was a barren mountain, shall by God's providence, become a fruitful and populous place; and these places which are now fruitful and populous, shall then beco...

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