Isaiah 28:4
Read Isaiah 28:4 Using Other Translations
What does Isaiah 28:4 mean?
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.
