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
Woe to the proud drunks who wear the crown of Ephraim for it is doomed! Its glory is fading like the crowns of flowers on their heads. They are at the entrance of a fertile valley. They are drunk from wine.
Psalm 73:19
How are they destroyed, suddenly! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
Hosea 6:4
What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. They came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame. They became as detestable as that which they loved.
Hosea 13:1
When the tribe of Ephraim spoke, people trembled. The people of Ephraim were important in Israel. Then they became guilty of worshiping Baal, so they must die.
James 1:10
But the rich must be glad when God humbles them. This is because they will wither like wildflowers and pass away.
The hasty
Micah 7:1
Too bad for me! For I am like the gathered summer fruit, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. I desire the first ripe fig.
Nahum 3:12
All your defenses will be like fig trees with the ripe figs. When shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.
Revelation 6:13
The stars of the sky fell to the earth, even as a fig tree drops her unripe figs when she is shaken by a mighty wind.
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Isaiah 17:9
In that day their strong cities (of Syria and Israel) will be like a forsaken bough and an uppermost branch that they left because of the children of Israel. There will be desolation in the land.