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Summary

Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

Pleasant vessels

General references

Bible References

He be

Genesis 41:52
And the second son he named Ephraim, meaning, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
Genesis 48:19
But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know! He too will become a tribe, and he too will be great; nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a populous nation.”
Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful vine,
a fruitful vine beside a spring;
its branches climb over the wall.
Deuteronomy 33:17
His firstborn bull has splendor,
and horns like those of a wild ox;
he gores all the peoples with them
to the ends of the earth.
Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and such are the thousands of Manasseh.

An east

Hosea 4:19
A wind with its wings will carry them off,
and they will be ashamed of their sacrifices.


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Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not like this;
instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations rage like the raging of many waters.
He rebukes them, and they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills
and like tumbleweeds before a gale.
Isaiah 41:16
You will winnow them
and a wind will carry them away,
a gale will scatter them.
But you will rejoice in the Lord;
you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 4:11
“At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, ‘A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to My dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;
Ezekiel 17:10
Even though it is planted, will it flourish?
Won’t it completely wither
when the east wind strikes it?
It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.”
Ezekiel 19:12
But it was uprooted in fury,
thrown to the ground,
and the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its strong branches were torn off and dried up;
fire consumed them.

His spring

Hosea 9:11
Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird:
no birth, no gestation, no conception.
Job 18:16
His roots below dry up,
and his branches above wither away.
Psalm 109:13
Let the line of his descendants be cut off;
let their name be blotted out in the next generation.
Isaiah 14:21
Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons,
because of the iniquity of their fathers.
They will never rise up to possess a land
or fill the surface of the earth with cities.

Pleasant vessels

Daniel 11:8
He will take even their gods captive to Egypt, with their metal images and their precious articles of silver and gold. For some years he will stay away from the king of the North,
Nahum 2:9
“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!”
There is no end to the treasure,
an abundance of every precious thing.

General references

Isaiah 17:9
On that day their strong cities will be
like the abandoned woods and mountaintops
that were abandoned because of the Israelites;
there will be desolation.

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