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?
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Gill's Exposition
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 it…
Barnes' Notes
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,…
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…
Cambridge Bible
The expressions here were perhaps proverbial; they are almost exactly repeated in ch. Isa 32:15.
yet a very little while as in ch. Isa 10:25 (cf. Isa 16:14).
Lebanonis here a synonym for forest (see…
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