Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 29:17

17. 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 forrest?

h The Forrest of Lebanon, which was a barren Mountain, and a desolate Wilderness, shall, by God's wonderful providence, become a fruitful and populous Place; and these places which are now Fruitful and Populous, shall then become as Barren and Desolate, as that Forrest. This Sense is confirmed by that parallel Place, Isa. 32 15. And from both places compared together, this seems to be a Prophecy of the rejection of the wicked and unbelieving Iews, whose Sins and marvellous Judgments, and particularly Infatuation, are declared in the foregoing Verses; and of the calling of the Gentiles, of which he speaks in the following Verse, as appears further by comparing that Verse with Isa. 35. 5, And this Opinion may receive some Countenance from Mat. 15. 7. &c. where Christ expounds the foregoing words, ver. 13. upon which these have a dependence, of his own times.

Marginal references: Psal. 72. 16.