Nahum 3:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when a man sees it, he eats it up as soon as it is in his 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, for they heap up earth and take it.

Revelation 6:13

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