Isaiah 28:4

The English Standar Version

and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it is in his hand.

Cross References

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!

Isaiah 8:4

for before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."

Hosea 13:1

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

Hosea 13:15

Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the LORD, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.

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 9:16

Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death.

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.