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
How terrible it will be for that arrogant garland the drunks of Ephraim! How terrible it will be for that fading flower of his glorious beauty, which sits on the heads of people bloated with food, of people overcome with wine!
Psalm 73:19
How desolate they quickly become, completely destroyed by calamities.
Hosea 6:4
"What am I to do with you, Ephraim? What am I to do with you, Judah? Your love is like a morning rain cloud it passes away like the morning dew.
Hosea 9:10
"I found Israel, as one finds grapes in the wilderness; Your ancestors seemed to me like the fruit gleaned from a fig tree's first harvest. When they went to Baal-peor, they devoted themselves to that filth, and they became loathsome, like what they loved.
Hosea 13:1
"When the tribe of Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; and it was exalted within Israel. But when they offended God by Baal, they died,
James 1:10
and a rich person in his having been humbled, because he will fade away like a wild flower.
The hasty
Micah 7:1
Poor me! I feel like those who harvest summer fruit, or like those who pick grapes there are no clusters to eat or any fresh fruit that I want.
Nahum 3:12
All your defenses are like fig trees with ripe early fruit when shaken, it falls right into the devourer's mouth.
Revelation 6:13
The stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree drops its fruit when it is shaken by a strong wind.
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Isaiah 17:9
"At that time, their fortified cities that they abandoned because of the Israelis will be like desolate places of the forests and hilltops there will be desolation.