the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Nahum 3:12
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But Nineveh, all your strong places will be like fig trees. When new figs become ripe, people come and shake the tree. The figs fall into their mouths. They eat them, and the figs are gone.
All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit— When shaken, they fall into the eater's mouth.
All your defenses are like fig trees with ripe fruit. When the tree is shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.
All your fortresses shall be [like] fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
All thy strong holds [shall be like] fig-trees with the first ripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
All your fortresses are [nothing but] fig trees with ripe figs— When shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs— if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
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.
Al thi strengthis as a fige tree, with hise figis vnripe; if thei schulen be schakun, thei schulen falle in to the mouth of the etere.
All thy fortresses shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
Your fortresses are fig trees with ripe figs. Merely shake the trees, and fruit will fall into every open mouth.
All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
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.
All your fortifications will be like fig trees with early ripening figs; the moment they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
All thy strongholds are [like] fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they even fall into the mouth of the eater.
All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs: if they bee shaken, they shall euen fall into the mouth of the eater.
All your strong towers are like fig trees with first-fruits. When they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the one who eats them.
All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs— if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
All thy strong cities shall be like figtrees with the first ripe figs: for if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
All your strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs; when they are ripe, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
All thy fortresses, shall be fig-trees with first-ripe figs: if thy be shaken, then shall the fruit fall on the mouth of the eater.
All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with their green figs: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.
All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs--if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
All thy strong aydes [are as] figge trees with the first ripe figges: if they be stirred, they fal into the mouth of the eater.
All thy strong-holds are as fig-trees having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.
All your fortresses will be like fig trees with ripe figs: shake the trees, and the fruit falls right into your mouth!
All your fortresses are fig treeswith figs that ripened first;when shaken, they fall—right into the mouth of the eater!
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.
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.
All of your fortifications are like fig trees with ripe firstfruits— if they are shaken, they will fall into the mouth of the eater.
All your fortresses are fig trees with the firstfruits; if they are shaken, then they shall fall on the mouth of the eater.
All thy fortresses [are] fig-trees with first-fruits, If they are shaken, They have fallen into the mouth of the eater.
All thy stronge cities shal be like fyge trees wt rype fyges: which whe a ma shaketh, they fall in to the mouth of the eater.
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!
All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs: If they are shaken, They fall into the mouth of the eater.
All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit— When shaken, they fall into the eater's mouth.
All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit—When shaken, they fall into the eater's mouth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Habakkuk 1:10, Revelation 6:13
Reciprocal: Isaiah 25:2 - For Isaiah 28:4 - the hasty Isaiah 30:25 - when Hosea 10:14 - and all Nahum 2:13 - I will cut
Cross-References
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him."
He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.
Then the Lord God asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The serpent deceived me," she replied. "That's why I ate it."
And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."
Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live.
And the Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.
After sending them out, the Lord God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
"Have I tried to hide my sins like other people do, concealing my guilt in my heart?
People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then are angry at the Lord .
Gill's Notes on the Bible
All thy strong holds [shall be like] fig trees with the first ripe figs,.... Upon them, or like them: "and the first ripe figs"; which are easily shook and gathered; and so easily should the fortresses and towers of Nineveh, in which they trusted for safety, be taken by the enemy, not only one, but all of them:
if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater; as such ripe fruit is very desirable, and the mouth of a man is open and ready for them; so if he gives the tree but the least shake, they will fall into his mouth, or about him in great plenty: in like manner, as the fortresses of Nineveh, being of importance, were desirable by the Chaldeans and Medes, and for which they were gaping; so upon the least assault they would fall into their hands; see Revelation 6:13.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
All thy strong-holds shall be like fig trees, with the first ripe figs - Hanging from them; eagerly sought after , to be consumed. Being ripe, they are ready to fall at once; âif they be shaken;â it needs but the tremulous motion, as when trees wave in the wind, âthey shall even fall into the mouth of the eater,â not costing even the slight pains of picking them from the ground . So easy is their destruction on the part of God, though it cost more pains to the Babylonians. At the end of the world it shall be yet more fulfilled Revelation 6:13, for then God will use no human instrument, but put forth only His own Almightiness; and all strong-holds of manâs pride, moral or spiritual, shall, of themselves, melt away.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Nahum 3:12. Thy strong holds — The effects of the consternation into which the Ninevites were cast by the assault on their city are here pointed out by a very expressive metaphor; the first-ripe figs, when at full maturity, fell from the tree with the least shake; and so, at the first shake or consternation, all the fortresses of Nineveh were abandoned; and the king, in despair, burnt himself and household in his own palace.