Isaia 29:17

17 Ancora un brevissimo tempo e il Libano sarà mutato in un frutteto, e il frutteto sarà considerato come una foresta.

Isaia 29:17 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 29:17

[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 would appear, that the Lord not only knows, but foreknows, all things: and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field;
the forest of Lebanon should be as Carmel. The meaning is, that the Gentile world, which was like a forest uncultivated, and full of unfruitful trees, to which wicked men may be compared, should through the preaching of the Gospel be manured, become God's husbandry, and be like a fruitful field, abounding with people and churches, fruitful in grace and good works: and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
the people of the Jews, who once had the word and ordinances of God, and were a fruitful and flourishing people in religion; through their rejection of the Messiah, and contempt of his Gospel, should be deprived of all their privileges, and become like a forest or barren land: this was fulfilled, when the kingdom of God was taken from them, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits of it, ( Matthew 21:43 ) . See ( Isaiah 32:15 ) ( Isaiah 35:1 Isaiah 35:2 ) .

Isaia 29:17 In-Context

15 Guai a quelli che si ritraggono lungi dall’Eterno in luoghi profondi per nascondere i loro disegni, che fanno le opere loro nelle tenebre, e dicono: "Chi ci vede? chi ci conosce?"

16 Che perversità è la vostra! Il vasaio sarà egli reputato al par dell’argilla sì che l’opera dica dell’operaio: "Ei non m’ha fatto?" sì che il vaso dica al vasaio: "Non ci capisce nulla?"

17 Ancora un brevissimo tempo e il Libano sarà mutato in un frutteto, e il frutteto sarà considerato come una foresta.

18 In quel giorno, i sordi udranno le parole del libro, e, liberati dall’oscurità e dalle tenebre, gli occhi dei ciechi vedranno;

19 gli umili avranno abbondanza di gioia nell’Eterno, e i più poveri tra gli uomini esulteranno nel Santo d’Israele.