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?
Lebanon shall be turned - As contrasted with your 'turnings of things upside down' (Isaiah 29:16), there shall be other and better turnings or revolutions-the outpouring of the Spirit in the latter days (Isaiah 32:15); first, on the Jews, which shall be followed by their national restoration (note, Isaiah 29:2; Zechariah 12:10); then on the Gentiles (Joel 2:28).
A fruitful field - literally, a Carmel (note, Isaiah 10:18). The moral change in the Jewish nation shall be as great as if the wooded Lebanon were to become a fruitful field, and vice versa. Compare Matthew 11:12, Greek, 'the kingdom of heaven forces itself' х biazetai (G971)], as it were, on man's acceptance: instead of men having to seek Messiah, as they had John in a desert, He presents Himself before them with loving invitations. Thus men's hearts, once a moral desert, are reclaimed so as to bear fruits of righteousness. And the fruitful field - vice versa, the ungodly who seemed prosperous, both in the moral and literal sense, shall be exhibited in their real barrenness.