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Isaiah 29:17

The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 29:17

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field. Lebanon, the wild forest, shall become smiling garden-ground, while garden-ground shall revert into wild uncultivated forest. An inversion of the moral condition of Judaea is shadowed forth by the metaphor.

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