Nahum 3:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs, when shaken they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² All your fortresses are fig trees with early figs; if they are shaken they will fall into the mouth of the eater.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

Common English Bible

¹² All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit; when the trees are shaken, the fruit falls into the mouth of the eater.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² All your fortresses will be like fig trees with their green figs. If they are shaken violently, they will fall into the mouth of the one who devours.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with their green figs: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

Nahum 3:12 Cross References

Isaiah 28:4

and the fading flower of its splendid comeliness that is on the head of the fertile valley, like the first fruit before the summer, which, when one sees it, he eats it up while it is still in his hand.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe. And the other basket had very spoilt figs which could not be eaten, they were so spoilt.”

Habakkuk 1:10

“And they scoff at sovereigns, and princes are a laughing matter to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they pile up earth and seize it.

Revelation 6:13

And the stars of the heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its unripe figs, being shaken by a strong wind.