Nahum 3:12

Modern English Version

All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs: If they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

Cross References

Isaiah 28:4

and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is at the head of the fertile valley, shall be like a first-ripe fig before the summer, which when one sees, while it is yet in his hand, he eats it up.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe, and the other basket had very rotten figs, which were so rotten they could not be eaten.

Habakkuk 1:10

They scoff at kings, and they scorn rulers. They deride every stronghold, for they build up siege ramps to capture it.

Revelation 6:13

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