Isaiah 29:17

Blessing After Punishment

¹⁶ He has turned the tables on you as if the potter were thought to be like heat. Can what is made say of the one who made it, "He did not make me?' Or can what is formed say of the ones who formed it, "He has no skill?' ¹⁷ "In a very little while, will not Lebanon be turned into a garden of fruit, and the garden of fruit seem like a forest? ¹⁸ On that day the deaf will hear the words of a scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Carmel

Lebanon

Isaiah 32:15

until the Spirit from on high is poured upon us, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest."

Psalm 84:6

They will pass through the Baca Valley where he will prepare a spring for them; even the early rain will cover it with blessings.

Psalm 107:33

He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into dry ground,

Psalm 107:35

He turns a desert into a pool of water, dry land into springs of water.

Isaiah 5:6

I'll make it a wasteland, and it won't be pruned or cultivated. Instead, briers and thorns will grow up. I'll also issue commands to the clouds, that they drop no rain upon it."

Isaiah 35:1-2

"The desert and the dry land will rejoice; the desert will celebrate and blossom. Like crocuses,

Isaiah 41:19

I'll put cedar trees in the wilderness, along with acacia, myrtle, and olive trees. I'll plant cypresses in the desert box trees, and pine trees together

Isaiah 49:5-6

"And now, says the LORD, who formed you from the womb as his servant to bring Jacob back to him so that Israel might be gathered to him and I am honored in the LORD's sight and my God has been my help

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of thornbushes, pine trees will grow, and instead of briers, myrtles will grow; and they will be a sign for the LORD, and an everlasting name that will not be cut off."

Isaiah 63:18

Your holy people took possession for a little while, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.

Isaiah 65:12-16

I'll consign you to the sword, and all of you will bend down for the slaughter because when I called, you didn't answer, when I spoke, you didn't listen; but you did what was evil in my sight, and chose what I took no pleasure in."

Ezekiel 20:46-47

"Son of Man, turn to the south and oppose it, talking toward the south.

Hosea 1:9-10

so the LORD told Hosea, "Name him "Lo-ammi,' because you are not my people, and I will not be your God.

Hosea 3:4

Likewise, the people of Israel will dwell a long time without a king, without a prince, without sacrifice, without sacred pillars, and with neither ephod nor teraphim.

Micah 3:12

"Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed up like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the Temple Mount like a forest high place."

Habakkuk 2:3

For the revelation pertains to an appointed time it speaks truthfully about the end. Though it delays, wait for it, because it will surely come about it will not be late!

Haggai 2:6

"For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Once more, in a little while, I will make the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land to shake.

Zechariah 11:1-2

Open your doors, Lebanon, and fire will consume your cedars.

Matthew 19:30

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first."

Matthew 21:18-19

In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, he became hungry.

Matthew 21:43

That is why I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce fruit for it.

Romans 11:11-17

And so I ask, "They have not stumbled so as to fall, have they?" Of course not! On the contrary, because of their stumbling, salvation has come to the gentiles to make the Jews jealous.

Romans 11:19-27

Then you will say, "Branches were cut off so that I could be grafted in."

Hebrews 10:37

For "in a very little while the one who is coming will return he will not delay;