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 crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!
Psalm 73:19
How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
Hosea 6:4
O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goes away early.
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season. But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that w
Hosea 13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he offended in Baal, he died.
James 1:10
but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away.

The hasty

Micah 7:1
Woe is me! For I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desires the first ripe fig.
Nahum 3:12
All thy fortresses shall be [like] fig trees with the first ripe figs. If they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
Revelation 6:13
And the stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig tree that casts its unripe figs being shaken by a great wind.

General references

Isaiah 17:9
In that day their strong cities shall be as the forsaken places in the woodland and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the sons of Israel, and it shall be a desolation.