17  Is it not yet a very little while

until Lebanon shall be ^fturned into a fruitful field,

and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?

15  until ^sthe Spirit is poured upon us from on high,

and the wilderness ^tbecomes a fruitful field,

and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.

19  ^tI will put in the wilderness the cedar,

the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive.

I will set in the desert the ^ucypress,

the plane and the pine together,

3  For the Lord ^ecomforts Zion;

he comforts all her waste places

and ^fmakes her wilderness like ^gEden,

her desert like the ^hgarden of the Lord;

joy and gladness will be found in her,

thanksgiving and the voice of song.