Nahum 3:12

Modern

All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!

Traditional

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.

Literal

All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the one eating.

Latin

Omnes munitiones tuæ sicut ficus cum grossis suis: si concussæ fuerint, cadent in os comedentis.

Hebrew

English

All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!

Revelation 6:13
…and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.
Habakkuk 1:10
They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.
Isaiah 28:4
The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.