Parallel Verses
- The Message - And then before you know it, and without you having anything to do with it, Wasted Lebanon will be transformed into lush gardens, and Mount Carmel reforested. At that time the deaf will hear word-for-word what’s been written. After a lifetime in the dark, the blind will see. The castoffs of society will be laughing and dancing in God, the down-and-outs shouting praise to The Holy of Israel. For there’ll be no more gangs on the street. Cynical scoffers will be an extinct species. Those who never missed a chance to hurt or demean will never be heard of again: Gone the people who corrupted the courts, gone the people who cheated the poor, gone the people who victimized the innocent.
- 新标点和合本 - 黎巴嫩变为肥田， 肥田看如树林， 不是只有一点点时候吗？
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 黎巴嫩变为田园， 田园看似森林， 不是只需要一些时间吗？
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 黎巴嫩变为田园， 田园看似森林， 不是只需要一些时间吗？
- 当代译本 - 再过不久，黎巴嫩将变成沃野， 沃野上庄稼将茂密如林。
- 圣经新译本 - 不是还有一点点的时候， 黎巴嫩就要变为肥田， 肥田就要被看为树林吗？
- 中文标准译本 - 难道不是还有短短的一会儿， 黎巴嫩就要变为果园， 而果园要被看为果林吗？
- 现代标点和合本 - 黎巴嫩变为肥田， 肥田看如树林， 不是只有一点点时候吗？
- 和合本（拼音版） - 黎巴嫩变为肥田， 肥田看如树林， 不是只有一点点时候吗？
- New International Version - In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?
- New International Reader's Version - In a very short time, Lebanon will be turned into rich farm lands. The rich farm lands will seem like a forest.
- English 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?
- New Living Translation - Soon—and it will not be very long— the forests of Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will yield bountiful crops.
- 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?
- New American Standard Bible - 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?
- New King James Version - 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?
- Amplified Bible - Is it not yet a very little while Until Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field, And the fertile field regarded as a forest?
- American Standard Version - 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?
- King James Version - 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?
- New English Translation - In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest.
- World English Bible - Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
- 新標點和合本 - 黎巴嫩變為肥田， 肥田看如樹林， 不是只有一點點時候嗎？
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 黎巴嫩變為田園， 田園看似森林， 不是只需要一些時間嗎？
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 黎巴嫩變為田園， 田園看似森林， 不是只需要一些時間嗎？
- 當代譯本 - 再過不久，黎巴嫩將變成沃野， 沃野上莊稼將茂密如林。
- 聖經新譯本 - 不是還有一點點的時候， 黎巴嫩就要變為肥田， 肥田就要被看為樹林嗎？
- 呂振中譯本 - 利巴嫩 就要變為園地， 園地就要被看為樹林麼？
- 中文標準譯本 - 難道不是還有短短的一會兒， 黎巴嫩就要變為果園， 而果園要被看為果林嗎？
- 現代標點和合本 - 黎巴嫩變為肥田， 肥田看如樹林， 不是只有一點點時候嗎？
- 文理和合譯本 - 歷時無幾、利巴嫩非變為良田、良田非稱為叢林乎、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 俄頃之間、利巴嫩林將變為良田、良田變為林木、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 越時不久、 利巴嫩 將變為佳園、 佳園或作良田下同 佳園將變為樹林、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Muy pronto el Líbano se convertirá en campo fértil, y el campo fértil se convertirá en bosque.
- 현대인의 성경 - 머지않아 울창한 숲이 농토가 되고 농토가 다시 숲이 될 것이다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Разве не совсем уже скоро Ливан станет плодородным полем, а плодородное поле будут считать лесом?
- Восточный перевод - Уже совсем скоро Ливан станет плодородным полем, а плодородное поле будут считать лесом.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Уже совсем скоро Ливан станет плодородным полем, а плодородное поле будут считать лесом.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Уже совсем скоро Ливан станет плодородным полем, а плодородное поле будут считать лесом.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Encore un peu de temps, et le Liban ╵sera transformé en verger, et le verger sera ╵semblable à la forêt.
- リビングバイブル - もうしばらくすると、レバノンの荒野は 再び実り豊かな平野となり、 樹木が茂るよく肥えた森となります。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Acaso o Líbano não será logo transformado em campo fértil, e não se pensará que o campo fértil é uma floresta?
- Hoffnung für alle - Bald schon wird das wilde Bergland des Libanon in einen üppigen Obstgarten verwandelt, dicht bewachsen wie ein Wald.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chẳng bao lâu nữa, khu rừng Li-ban sẽ trở nên ruộng phì nhiêu và ruộng phì nhiêu sẽ sinh hoa lợi dồi dào.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ในไม่ช้าเลบานอนจะไม่กลับกลายเป็นท้องทุ่งอันอุดมสมบูรณ์หรือ? และท้องทุ่งอันอุดมสมบูรณ์จะดูเหมือนป่าหรือ?
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - อีกไม่นานมิใช่หรือ ที่เลบานอนจะกลับกลายเป็นไร่นาอันอุดม และไร่นาซึ่งอุดมสมบูรณ์ก็จะถือเสมือนว่าเป็นป่าดงดิบ
Cross Reference
- Hosea 1:10 - “But down the road the population of Israel is going to explode past counting, like sand on the ocean beaches. In the very place where they were once named Nobody, they will be named God’s Somebody. Everybody in Judah and everybody in Israel will be assembled as one people. They’ll choose a single leader. There’ll be no stopping them—a great day in Jezreel!”
- Isaiah 35:1 - Wilderness and desert will sing joyously, the badlands will celebrate and flower— Like the crocus in spring, bursting into blossom, a symphony of song and color. Mountain glories of Lebanon—a gift. Awesome Carmel, stunning Sharon—gifts. God’s resplendent glory, fully on display. God awesome, God majestic.
- Isaiah 65:13 - Therefore, this is the Message from the Master, God: “My servants will eat, and you’ll go hungry; My servants will drink, and you’ll go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, and you’ll hang your heads. My servants will laugh from full hearts, and you’ll cry out heartbroken, yes, wail from crushed spirits. Your legacy to my chosen will be your name reduced to a cussword. I, God, will put you to death and give a new name to my servants. Then whoever prays a blessing in the land will use my faithful name for the blessing, And whoever takes an oath in the land will use my faithful name for the oath, Because the earlier troubles are gone and forgotten, banished far from my sight.
- Romans 11:11 - The next question is, “Are they down for the count? Are they out of this for good?” And the answer is a clear-cut No. Ironically when they walked out, they left the door open and the outsiders walked in. But the next thing you know, the Jews were starting to wonder if perhaps they had walked out on a good thing. Now, if their leaving triggered this worldwide coming of non-Jewish outsiders to God’s kingdom, just imagine the effect of their coming back! What a homecoming!
- Romans 11:13 - But I don’t want to go on about them. It’s you, the outsiders, that I’m concerned with now. Because my personal assignment is focused on the so-called outsiders, I make as much of this as I can when I’m among my Israelite kin, the so-called insiders, hoping they’ll realize what they’re missing and want to get in on what God is doing. If their falling out initiated this worldwide coming together, their recovery is going to set off something even better: mass homecoming! If the first thing the Jews did, even though it was wrong for them, turned out for your good, just think what’s going to happen when they get it right!
- Romans 11:16 - Behind and underneath all this there is a holy, God-planted, God-tended root. If the primary root of the tree is holy, there’s bound to be some holy fruit. Some of the tree’s branches were pruned and you wild olive shoots were grafted in. Yet the fact that you are now fed by that rich and holy root gives you no cause to gloat over the pruned branches. Remember, you aren’t feeding the root; the root is feeding you.
- Isaiah 49:5 - “And now,” God says, this God who took me in hand from the moment of birth to be his servant, To bring Jacob back home to him, to set a reunion for Israel— What an honor for me in God’s eyes! That God should be my strength! He says, “But that’s not a big enough job for my servant— just to recover the tribes of Jacob, merely to round up the strays of Israel. I’m setting you up as a light for the nations so that my salvation becomes global!”
- Psalms 107:33 - God turned rivers into wasteland, springs of water into sunbaked mud; Luscious orchards became alkali flats because of the evil of the people who lived there. Then he changed wasteland into fresh pools of water, arid earth into springs of water, Brought in the hungry and settled them there; they moved in—what a great place to live! They sowed the fields, they planted vineyards, they reaped a bountiful harvest. He blessed them and they prospered greatly; their herds of cattle never decreased. But abuse and evil and trouble declined as he heaped scorn on princes and sent them away. He gave the poor a safe place to live, treated their clans like well-cared-for sheep.
- Ezekiel 20:47 - “Tell the forest of the south, ‘Listen to the Message of God! God, the Master, says, I’ll set a fire in you that will burn up every tree, dead trees and live trees alike. Nobody will put out the fire. The whole country from south to north will be blackened by it. Everyone is going to see that I, God, started the fire and that it’s not going to be put out.’”
- Matthew 21:18 - Early the next morning Jesus was returning to the city. He was hungry. Seeing a lone fig tree alongside the road, he approached it anticipating a breakfast of figs. When he got to the tree, there was nothing but fig leaves. He said, “No more figs from this tree—ever!” The fig tree withered on the spot, a dry stick. The disciples saw it happen. They rubbed their eyes, saying, “Did we really see this? A leafy tree one minute, a dry stick the next?”
- Hosea 3:4 - The people of Israel are going to live a long time stripped of security and protection, without religion and comfort, godless and prayerless. But in time they’ll come back, these Israelites, come back looking for their God and their David-King. They’ll come back chastened to reverence before God and his good gifts, ready for the End of the story of his love.
- Romans 11:19 - It’s certainly possible to say, “Other branches were pruned so that I could be grafted in!” Well and good. But they were pruned because they were deadwood, no longer connected by belief and commitment to the root. The only reason you’re on the tree is because your graft “took” when you believed, and because you’re connected to that belief-nurturing root. So don’t get cocky and strut your branch. Be humbly mindful of the root that keeps you lithe and green.
- Romans 11:21 - If God didn’t think twice about taking pruning shears to the natural branches, why would he hesitate over you? He wouldn’t give it a second thought. Make sure you stay alert to these qualities of gentle kindness and ruthless severity that exist side by side in God—ruthless with the deadwood, gentle with the grafted shoot. But don’t presume on this gentleness. The moment you become deadwood, it’s game over.
- Romans 11:23 - And don’t get to feeling superior to those pruned branches down on the ground. If they don’t persist in remaining deadwood, they could very well get grafted back in. God can do that. He can perform miracle grafts. Why, if he could graft you—branches cut from a tree out in the wild—into an orchard tree, he certainly isn’t going to have any trouble grafting branches back into the tree they grew from in the first place. Just be glad you’re in the tree, and hope for the best for the others.
- Romans 11:25 - I want to lay all this out on the table as clearly as I can, friends. This is complicated. It would be easy to misinterpret what’s going on and arrogantly assume that you’re royalty and they’re just rabble, out on their ears for good. But that’s not it at all. This hardness on the part of insider Israel toward God is temporary. Its effect is to open things up to all the outsiders so that we end up with a full house. Before it’s all over, there will be a complete Israel. As it is written, A champion will stride down from the mountain of Zion; he’ll clean house in Jacob. And this is my commitment to my people: removal of their sins. From your point of view as you hear and embrace the good news of the Message, it looks like the Jews are God’s enemies. But looked at from the long-range perspective of God’s overall purpose, they remain God’s oldest friends. God’s gifts and God’s call are under full warranty—never canceled, never rescinded.
- Haggai 2:6 - “This is what God-of-the-Angel-Armies said: ‘Before you know it, I will shake up sky and earth, ocean and fields. And I’ll shake down all the godless nations. They’ll bring bushels of wealth and I will fill this Temple with splendor.’ God-of-the-Angel-Armies says so.
- Zechariah 11:1 - Open your borders to the immigrants, proud Lebanon! Your sentinel trees will burn. Weep, great pine trees! Mourn, you sister cedars! Your towering trees are cordwood. Weep Bashan oak trees! Your thick forest is now a field of stumps. Do you hear the wailing of shepherds? They’ve lost everything they once owned. Do you hear the outrage of the lions? The mighty jungle of the Jordan is wasted. Make room for the returning exiles!
- Isaiah 32:15 - Yes, weep and grieve until the Spirit is poured down on us from above And the badlands desert grows crops and the fertile fields become forests. Justice will move into the badlands desert. Right will build a home in the fertile field. And where there’s Right, there’ll be Peace and the progeny of Right: quiet lives and endless trust. My people will live in a peaceful neighborhood— in safe houses, in quiet gardens. The forest of your pride will be clear-cut, the city showing off your power leveled. But you will enjoy a fortunate life, planting well-watered fields and gardens, with your farm animals grazing freely.