Commentary for Isaiah 29:17
הֲלוֹא־עוֹד֙ מְעַ֣ט מִזְעָ֔ר וְשָׁ֥ב לְבָנ֖וֹן לַכַּרְמֶ֑ל וְהַכַּרְמֶ֖ל לַיַּ֥עַר יֵחָשֵֽׁב׃
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?
Rashi on Isaiah
Indeed, in a short time In a few days, it is easy in My eyes, if you return to Me
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
מעט A little. A little while, a few days.
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Rashi on Isaiah
the Lebanon shall be turned The Lebanon, which is a forest of trees, shall be turned into a ‘karmel,’ a settlement of fields and vineyards.
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
And Lebanon shall be turned, etc. And the Lebanon, that yields more fruit than Karmel, will become like Karmel, and the latter like a forest; that is to say, they will have scanty food.
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Rashi on Isaiah
and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest Jonathan renders: It shall be populated by large cities. And the Aggadah in Gen. Rabbah (24:1) explains it as forests of people, a settlement of cities and people, crowded and full, like this forest, which is full of trees.
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