Nahum 3:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 6:13 : 13 And the stars of heaven were falling to the earth, like green fruit from a tree before the force of a great wind.
  • Isa 28:4 : 4 And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.
  • Hab 1:10 : 10 He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.

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    11And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.

  • Nah 3:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.

    14Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

    15There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

  • Jer 5:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

    17They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Deut 28:42
    74%

    42All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.

  • Ezek 26:9
    73%

    9He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

  • Isa 25:12
    73%

    12And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • Hab 3:17
    73%

    17For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • Isa 3:25-26
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    73%

    25Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

    26And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

  • Amos 3:11
    72%

    11For this reason, says the Lord, an attacker will come, shutting in the land on every side; and your strength will come down and your great houses will be made waste.

  • Deut 28:51-52
    2 verses
    72%

    51He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

    52Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Isa 24:12-13
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    71%

    12In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

    13For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.

  • Joel 1:12
    71%

    12The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

  • Hos 10:14
    71%

    14So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.

  • Ezek 26:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.

    12They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

  • Joel 1:6-7
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    71%

    6For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.

    7By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

  • Rev 6:13
    71%

    13And the stars of heaven were falling to the earth, like green fruit from a tree before the force of a great wind.

  • Jer 8:13
    71%

    13I will put an end to them completely, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry.

  • Mic 6:14
    71%

    14You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Hos 2:12
    71%

    12And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.

  • Deut 28:33
    70%

    33The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

  • Isa 17:9
    70%

    9In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

  • Lev 26:37-38
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    70%

    37Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

    38And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

  • Job 15:33
    70%

    33He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

  • Ps 80:12
    70%

    12Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

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    70%

    10For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
    70%

    19And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.

  • Judg 9:11
    70%

    11But the fig-tree said to them, Am I to give up my sweet taste and my good fruit and go waving over the trees?

  • Ezek 19:12
    70%

    12But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.

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    70%

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  • Nah 1:10
    70%

    10For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

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    70%

    16All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

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    69%

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    69%

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    69%

    10In that day, says the Lord of armies, you will be one another's guests under the vine and under the fig-tree.

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