Nahum 3:12 - Modern English Version

¹² All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs: If they are shaken, they 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.

Nahum 3:12 Tagairtí Cros

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.