Isaiah 28:4

Render: And the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley (Isaiah 28:1), shall be like the early fig before the fruit-harvest, &c. These "early figs," which might be found in the end of June, several weeks before the proper fig-season (in August), were esteemed a great delicacy; Hosea 9:10; Micah 7:1; Nahum 3:12; Jeremiah 24:2.

whichwhen he … seeth Render: which when any one seeth (lit. "(the seer) seeth"; indef. subj., Davidson, Synt. § 108, R. 1). To see, to snatch, to swallow, is the work of a moment. So greedily and hastily and easily shall the Assyrians devour Samaria!