Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
His spring
Pleasant vessels
General references
Bible References
He be
Genesis 41:52
and the name of the second he hath called Ephraim: 'for, God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of mine affliction.'
Genesis 48:19
And his father refuseth, and saith, 'I have known, my son, I have known; he also becometh a people, and he also is great, and yet, his young brother is greater than he, and his seed is the fulness of the nations;'
Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall;
Deuteronomy 33:17
His honour is a firstling of his ox, And his horns are horns of a reem; By them peoples he doth push together To the ends of earth; And they are the myriads of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
An east
Hosea 4:19
Distressed her hath wind with its wings, And they are ashamed of their sacrifices!
Psalm 1:4
Not so the wicked: But -- as chaff that wind driveth away!
Isaiah 17:13
Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.
Isaiah 41:16
Thou winnowest them, and a wind lifteth them up, And a whirlwind scattereth them, And thou -- thou rejoicest in Jehovah, In the Holy One of Israel dost boast thyself.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: 'A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,)
Ezekiel 17:10
And lo, the planted thing -- doth it prosper? When come against it doth the east wind, Doth it not utterly wither? On the furrows of its springing it withereth.'
Ezekiel 19:12
And it is plucked up in fury, To the earth it hath been cast, And the east wind hath dried up its fruit, Broken and withered hath been the rod of its strength, Fire hath consumed it.
His spring
Hosea 9:11
Ephraim is as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.
Job 18:16
From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.
Psalm 109:13
His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.
Isaiah 14:21
Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world with cities.
Pleasant vessels
Daniel 11:8
and also their gods, with their princes, with their desirable vessels of silver and gold, into captivity he bringeth into Egypt; and he doth stand more years than the king of the north.
Nahum 2:9
Seize ye silver, seize ye gold, And there is no end to the prepared things, To the abundance of all desirable vessels.
General references
Isaiah 17:9
In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.