Isaiah 28:4
And the fading flower of the + 28:4 Gr. hope of glory glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
3The crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, shall be beaten down with the hands and with the feet.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:4For before the child shall know how to call his father or his mother, one shall take the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of the Assyrians.
Hosea 6:4let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.
Hosea 9:16Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall in no wise any more bear fruit: therefore even if they should beget children, I will kill the desired fruit of their womb.
Hosea 13:15Forasmuch as he will cause a division among his brethren, the Lord shall bring upon him an east wind from the desert, and shall dry up his veins and quite drain his fountains: he shall dry up his land, and spoil all his precious vessels.
Nahum 3:12All your strongholds are as fig-trees having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:2-9
Ephraim Reproved and Threatened; The Punishment of Ephraim; ( b. c. 725.) 1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: 4 And… Read the whole commentary →