Nahum 3:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Isaiah 28:4

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, at the head of the fertile valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer; whoever sees it eats it up as soon as it comes to hand.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

Habakkuk 1:10

At kings they scoff, and of rulers they make sport. They laugh at every fortress and heap up earth to take it.

Revelation 6:13

and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree drops its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.