Nahum 3:12 Parallel Translations

All your defenses will be like fig trees with the earliest figs. When shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

All your walled places will be like fig-trees and your people like the first figs, falling at a shake into the mouth which is open for them.

DBY:

All thy strongholds are like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they even fall into the mouth of the eater.

ERV:

All thy fortresses shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

JPS:

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.

WBS:

All thy strong holds shall be like fig-trees with the first ripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

WEB:

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

YLT:

All thy fortresses are fig-trees with first-fruits, If they are shaken, They have fallen into the mouth of the eater.

Nahum 3:12 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 28:4 And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley, Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to summer, Which one sees, And as soon as it is in his hand, He swallows it.

Revelation 6:13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

3:12 Ripe figs - Whose weight and ripeness will bring them quickly to the ground. Shaken - If but lightly touched.

MHC:

3:8-19 Strong-holds, even the strongest, are no defence against the judgments of God. They shall be unable to do any thing for themselves. The Chaldeans and Medes would devour the land like canker-worms. The Assyrians also would be eaten up by their own numerous hired troops, which seem to be meant by the word rendered merchants. Those that have done evil to their neighbours, will find it come home to them. Nineveh, and many other cities, states, and empires, have been ruined, and should be a warning to us. Are we better, except as there are some true Christians amongst us, who are a greater security, and a stronger defence, than all the advantages of situation or strength? When the Lord shows himself against a people, every thing they trust in must fail, or prove a disadvantage; but he continues good to Israel. He is a strong-hold for every believer in time of trouble, that cannot be stormed or taken; and he knoweth those that trust in Him.

CONC:

Eater Eater's Fall Fallen Falling Fig Figs Fig-trees First-fruits Firstripe First-ripe Fortifications Fortresses Fruit Holds Mouth Open Places Ripe Shake Shaken Strong Strongholds Trees Walled

Eater Fall Falling Fig Figs Fig-Trees First First-Fruits Firstripe First-Ripe Fortifications Fortresses Fruit Holds Mouth Open Places Ripe Shake Shaken Strong Strongholds Trees Walled

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