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.
The hasty
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Bible References
Shall be
Isaiah 28:1
Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
Psalm 73:19
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
Hosea 9:10
Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.
Hosea 13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.
James 1:10
and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
The hasty
Micah 7:1
Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
Nahum 3:12
All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs-- if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
Revelation 6:13
and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.
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Isaiah 17:9
In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.