Nahum 3:12
All your fortresses are like fig trees ripe with fruit—they fall when they are shaken into the mouth of the one eating.
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In Context
11You too will behave like a drunk. You will hide in fear, trying to find a place safe from the enemy.
Cross References
Habakkuk 1:10They mock kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh in scorn at fortresses—they pile up earth ramps and capture them.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:9-19
The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. 11… Read the whole commentary →