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 majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards,
and to the fading flower of its beautiful splendor,
which is on the summit above the rich valley.
Woe to those overcome with wine.
Psalm 73:19
How suddenly they become a desolation!
They come to an end, swept away by terrors.
Hosea 6:4
What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?
What am I going to do with you, Judah?
Your loyalty is like the morning mist
and like the early dew that vanishes.
Hosea 9:10
I discovered Israel
like grapes in the wilderness.
I saw your fathers
like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to Baal-peor,
consecrated themselves to 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
but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

The hasty

Micah 7:1
How sad for me!
For I am like one who—
when the summer fruit has been gathered
after the gleaning of the grape harvest
finds no grape cluster to eat,
no early fig, which I crave.
Nahum 3:12
All your fortresses are fig trees
with figs that ripened first;
when shaken, they fall—
right into the mouth of the eater!
Revelation 6:13
the stars of heaven fell to the earth as a fig tree drops its unripe figs when shaken by a high wind;

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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