Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

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Bible References

Shall be

Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the fertile valley
Of those who are overcome with wine!
Psalm 73:19
How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!
Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your loyalty is like a morning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame,
And they became as detestable as that which they loved.
Hosea 13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
He exalted himself in Israel,
But through Baal he did wrong and died.
James 1:10
and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.

The hasty

Micah 7:1
Woe is me! For I am
Like the fruit pickers, like the grape gatherers.
There is not a cluster of grapes to eat,
Or a first-ripe fig which I crave.
Nahum 3:12
All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit—
When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.
Revelation 6:13
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.

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Isaiah 17:9
In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And the land will be a desolation.