And the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley,.... Meaning the riches and fruitfulness of the ten tribes, and especially of Samaria the head of them:shall be a fading flower; as before declared, Isa 28:1 and here repeated to show the certainty of it, and to awaken their attention to it:[and] as the hasty fruit before the summer; the first ripe fruit, that which is ripe before the summer fruits in common are.
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Isaiah 28:4
Isaiah 28:4
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