Discovery BoxIsaiah 28:4 
Context28:4 The withering flower, its beautiful splendor,
situated at the head of a rich valley,
will be like an early fig before harvest –
as soon as someone notices it,
he grabs it and swallows it. 1
Isaiah 34:4
Context34:4 All the stars in the sky will fade away, 2
the sky will roll up like a scroll;
all its stars will wither,
like a leaf withers and falls from a vine
or a fig withers and falls from a tree. 3
1 tn Heb “which the one seeing sees, while still it is in his hand he swallows it.”
2 tc Heb “and all the host of heaven will rot.” The Qumran scroll 1QIsaa inserts “and the valleys will be split open,” but this reading may be influenced by Mic 1:4. On the other hand, the statement, if original, could have been omitted by homoioarcton, a scribe’s eye jumping from the conjunction prefixed to “the valleys” to the conjunction prefixed to the verb “rot.”
3 tn Heb “like the withering of a leaf from a vine, and like the withering from a fig tree.”
