Isaías 28:4

4 Y la flor marchita de su gloriosa hermosura, que está sobre la cabeza del valle fértil, será como el primer higo maduro antes del verano, el cual uno ve, y tan pronto está en su mano se lo traga.

Isaías 28:4 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 28:4

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, ( Isaiah 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. The Septuagint render it the first ripe fig; and so the Targum and Aben Ezra: which [when] he that looketh upon it seeth it;
that it is goodly and desirable, and so gathers it, ( Micah 7:1 ) : while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up;
and as soon as he has got it into his hand, he cannot keep it there to look at, or forbear eating it, but greedily devours it, and swallows it down at once; denoting what a desirable prey the ten tribes would be to the Assyrian monarch, and how swift, sudden, and inevitable, would be their destruction.

Isaías 28:4 In-Context

2 He aquí que uno, fuerte y poderoso, de parte del Señor, como tormenta de granizo, tempestad destructora, como tormenta de violentas aguas desbordadas, los ha lanzado a tierra con su mano.

3 Con los pies es hollada la corona de arrogancia de los ebrios de Efraín.

4 Y la flor marchita de su gloriosa hermosura, que está sobre la cabeza del valle fértil, será como el primer higo maduro antes del verano, el cual uno ve, y tan pronto está en su mano se lo traga.

5 En aquel día el SEÑOR de los ejércitos será hermosa corona, gloriosa diadema para el remanente de su pueblo,

6 espíritu de justicia para el que se sienta en juicio, y fuerza para aquellos que rechazan el asalto en la puerta.