Isaiah 29:17 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?
English ASV
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?
English Amplified
Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field esteemed as a forest?
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field esteemed as a forest?
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
Isn’t it true that in just a little while Lebanon will become an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest?
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
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?
English EASY 2024
Very soon, Lebanon's forest will become a field of fruit trees. And the field of fruit trees will seem like a forest.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
This is the truth: After a very short time, Lebanon will become rich farmland, and the farmland will be like thick forests.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
English GNT (Good News Translation)
As the saying goes, before long the dense forest will become farmland, and the farmland will go back to forest.
English God's Word - GW 1995
In a very short time Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field will be considered a forest.
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
Isn't [it true that] in just a little while Lebanon will become an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest?
English KJV 1611
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?
English LSB
Is it not yet just a little while Before Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful orchard, And the fruitful orchard will be counted as a forest?
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
Is it not yet a very little while before Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be counted as a forest?
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
Is it not yet just a little while Before Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field, And the fertile field will be considered as a forest?
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
But a very little while, and Lebanon shall be changed into an orchard, and the orchard be regarded as a forest!
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest.
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
In a very short time, Lebanon will be turned into rich farm lands. The rich farm lands will seem like a forest.
English NIV
In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?
English NKJ 1982
Is it not yet a very little while Till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?
English NLT
Soon--and it will not be very long--the wilderness of Lebanon will be a fertile field once again. And the fertile fields will become a lush and fertile forest.
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
Shall not Lebanon in a very little while become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest?
English Passion Translation Bible 2020
Before you know it, Lebanon will be transformed into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will seem like a forest.
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
Soon—and it will not be very long—the wilderness of Lebanon will be a fruitful field again, a lush and fertile forest.
English Tyndale 1537
See ye not that it is hard by, that Libanus shall be turned in to Charmel, and that Charmel shall be taken as a wood?