Nahum 3:12

All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the earliest ripe figs: 1 if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. 1

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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.

In Context

11You also will become drunk; you will try to hide, 1 and you will also look for a refuge from your enemy. 1

13See, the people among you are women; 1 the gates of your land have been opened wide to your enemies; 1 fire has devoured their bars. 1

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Cross References

Habakkuk 1:10So they mock kings, and rulers are only a mockery for them. 1 They laugh at every stronghold, for they heap up earth and take them. 1

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 →

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