Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest?

yet a very

Isaiah 63:18 They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Habakkuk 2:3 For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end, and shall not lie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely come, and it shall not be slack.

Haggai 2:6 For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet one little while, and I will move the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.

Hebrews 10:37 For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come will come and will not delay.

Lebanon

Isaiah 32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert shall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest.

Isaiah 35:1,2 The land that was desolate and impassable shall be glad, and the wilderness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like the lily. . . .

Isaiah 41:19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the elm, and the box tree together:

Isaiah 49:5,6 And now saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be his servant, that I may bring back Jacob unto him, and Israel will not be gathered together: and I am glorified in the eyes of the Lord, and my God is made my strength. . . .

Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the shrub, shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the nettle, shall come up the myrtle tree: and the Lord shall be named for an everlasting sign, that shall not be taken away.

Isaiah 65:12-16 I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by slaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you did not hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the things that displease me. . . .

Hosea 1:9,10 And he said: Call his name, Not my people: for you are not my people, and I will not be yours. . . .

Matthew 19:30 And many that are first, shall be last: and the last shall be first.

Matthew 21:43 Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof.

Romans 11:11-17 I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them. . . .

the fruitful

Isaiah 5:6 And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

Ezekiel 20:46,47 Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and drop towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field. . . .

Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

Micah 3:12 Her princes have judged for bribes: and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come among us.

Zechariah 11:1,2 Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars. . . .

Matthew 21:18,19 And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry. . . .

Romans 11:19-27 Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. . . .