Isaiah 28:4
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4 And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
at the head of the fertile valley,
will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer;
whoever sees it eats it up
as soon as it comes to hand.(A)
Nahum 3:12
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12 All your fortresses are like fig trees
with first-ripe figs—
if shaken they fall
into the mouth of the eater.(A)
Micah 7:1
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The Total Corruption of the People
7 Woe is me! For I have become like one who,
after the summer fruit has been gathered,
after the vintage has been gleaned,
finds no cluster to eat;
there is no first-ripe fig for which I hunger.(A)
Hosea 6:4
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Impenitence of Israel and Judah
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 away early.(A)
Isaiah 28:1
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Judgment on Corrupt Rulers, Priests, and Prophets
28 Woe to the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim
and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
at the head of the fertile valley,
those overcome with wine!(A)
Revelation 6:13
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13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree drops its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.(A)
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James 1:10-11
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10 and the rich in having been humbled, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.(A) 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same way with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away.
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Hosea 13:15
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15 Although he may flourish among rushes,[a]
the east wind shall come, a blast from the Lord,
rising from the wilderness,
and his fountain shall dry up;
his spring shall be parched.
It shall strip his treasury
of every precious thing.(A)
Footnotes
- 13.15 Or among brothers
Hosea 13:1
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Relentless Judgment on Israel
13 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;
he was exalted in Israel,
but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.(A)
Hosea 9:16
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16 Ephraim is stricken,
their root is dried up,
they shall bear no fruit.
Even though they give birth,
I will kill the cherished offspring of their womb.(A)
Hosea 9:10-11
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10 Like grapes in the wilderness,
I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree,
in its first season,
I saw your ancestors.
But they came to Baal-peor
and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame
and became detestable like the thing they loved.(A)
11 Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!(B)
Psalm 73:19-20
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19 How they are destroyed in a moment,
swept away utterly by terrors!(A)
20 They are[a] like a dream when one awakes;
on awaking you despise their phantoms.(B)
Footnotes
- 73.20 Cn: Heb Lord
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