Nahum 3:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Rev 6:13 : 13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs when she is shaken by a mighty wind.
  • Isa 28:4 : 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be a fading flower, and like the early fruit before the summer; which when he who looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
  • Hab 1:10 : 10 They scoff at kings, and the princes are scorned by them; they deride every stronghold, for they heap up dust and take it.

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    11You also shall be drunk: you shall be hidden, you also shall seek strength because of the enemy.

  • Nah 3:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13Behold, your people in your midst are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.

    14Draw water for the siege, fortify your strongholds: go into clay and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.

    15There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

  • Jer 5:16-17
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    75%

    16Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

    17And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

  • Deut 28:42
    74%

    42All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.

  • Ezek 26:9
    73%

    9And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • Isa 25:12
    73%

    12And the fortress of the high fort of your walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Hab 3:17
    73%

    17Though the fig tree shall not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.

  • Isa 3:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in battle.

    26And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate shall sit on the ground.

  • Amos 3:11
    72%

    11Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: An adversary shall be all around the land; he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be plundered.

  • Deut 28:51-52
    2 verses
    72%

    51And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed: which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your kine, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.

    52And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

  • Isa 24:12-13
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    71%

    12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

    13When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people, it shall be like the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.

  • Joel 1:12
    71%

    12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy has withered away from the sons of men.

  • Hos 10:14
    71%

    14Therefore a tumult shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be plundered, as Shalman plundered Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces on her children.

  • Ezek 26:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11With the hooves of his horses he shall tread down all your streets; he shall slay your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons shall fall to the ground.

    12And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.

  • Joel 1:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6For a nation has come up against my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.

    7He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree: he has made it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.

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    13And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs when she is shaken by a mighty wind.

  • Jer 8:13
    71%

    13I will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall wither; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

  • Mic 6:14
    71%

    14You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

  • Hos 2:12
    71%

    12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them.

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    70%

    33The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always:

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    70%

    9In that day his strong cities shall be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

  • Lev 26:37-38
    2 verses
    70%

    37And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursues: and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

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    70%

    33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and cast off his flower as the olive.

  • Ps 80:12
    70%

    12Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

  • Isa 27:10
    70%

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  • 2 Kgs 3:19
    70%

    19And you shall attack every fortified city and every choice city, and shall cut down every good tree, and stop up all the springs of water, and ruin every good piece of land with stones."

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    70%

    11But the fig tree said to them, Should I forsake my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?

  • Ezek 19:12
    70%

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  • Isa 28:4
    70%

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    70%

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    70%

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  • Jer 30:16
    69%

    16Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall become plunder, and all who prey upon you I will give for prey.

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    10In that day, says the LORD of hosts, every man shall call his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.

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    1The one who dashes in pieces is coming up before you: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.

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    12His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and destruction shall be ready at his side.