Nahum 3:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The Assyrian Defenses Will Fail All your fortifications will be like fig trees with first-ripe fruit: If they are shaken, their figs will fall into the mouth of the eater!

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 6:13 : 13 and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.
  • Isa 28:4 : 4 The withering flower, its beautiful splendor, situated at the head of a rich valley, will be like an early fig before harvest– as soon as someone notices it, he grabs it and swallows it.
  • Hab 1:10 : 10 They mock kings and laugh at rulers. They laugh at every fortified city; they build siege ramps and capture them.

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    16All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.

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    17When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

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    25Your men will fall by the sword, your strong men will die in battle.

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    51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

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    12The city is left in ruins; the gate is reduced to rubble.

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