Nahum 3:12

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 6:13 : 13 The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.
  • Isa 28:4 : 4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
  • Hab 1:10 : 10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 3:11
    80%

    11 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

  • Nah 3:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13 Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

    14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

    15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

  • Jer 5:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

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

    17 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 beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

  • Deut 28:42
    74%

    42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.

  • Ezek 26:9
    73%

    9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • Isa 25:12
    73%

    12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Hab 3:17
    73%

    17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

  • Isa 3:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

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

    26 Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

  • Amos 3:11
    72%

    11 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered."

  • Deut 28:51-52
    2 verses
    72%

    51 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

    52 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.

  • Isa 24:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

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

    13 For it will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

  • Joel 1:12
    71%

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

  • Hos 10:14
    71%

    14 Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.

  • Ezek 26:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.

    12 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 waters.

  • Joel 1:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

    7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

  • Rev 6:13
    71%

    13 The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.

  • Jer 8:13
    71%

    13 I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: no grapes shall be on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.

  • Mic 6:14
    71%

    14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

  • Hos 2:12
    71%

    12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,' and the animals of the field shall eat them.

  • Deut 28:33
    70%

    33 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;

  • Isa 17:9
    70%

    9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

  • Lev 26:37-38
    2 verses
    70%

    37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

    38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up.

  • Job 15:33
    70%

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

  • Ps 80:12
    70%

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

  • Isa 27:10
    70%

    10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
    70%

    19 You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'"

  • Judg 9:11
    70%

    11 "But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'

  • Ezek 19:12
    70%

    12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.

  • Isa 28:4
    70%

    4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

  • Nah 1:10
    70%

    10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

  • Lam 2:16
    70%

    16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

  • Jer 30:16
    69%

    16 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will I give for a prey.

  • Mic 3:12
    69%

    12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

  • Zech 3:10
    69%

    10 In that day,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.'"

  • Nah 2:1
    69%

    1 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

  • Ezek 16:39
    69%

    39 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.

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    4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

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    22 The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

  • Ps 89:40
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    40 You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

  • Mic 5:11
    69%

    11 I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down all your strongholds.

  • Job 18:12
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    12 His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.