Nahum 3:12

New English Translation

All your fortifications will be like fig trees with first-ripe fruit: If they are shaken, their figs will fall into the mouth of the eater!

Cross References

Isaiah 28:4

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.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early. The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten.

Habakkuk 1:10

They mock kings and laugh at rulers. They laugh at every fortified city; they build siege ramps and capture them.

Revelation 6:13

and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.