Nahum 3:12
Nahum 3:12 — The New International Version (NIV)
12 All your fortresses are like fig trees
with their first ripe fruit;
when they are shaken,
the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:12 — English Standard Version (ESV)
12 All your fortresses are like fig trees
with first-ripe figs—
if shaken they fall
into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:12 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
12 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.
Nahum 3:12 — New Living Translation (NLT)
12 All your fortresses will fall.
They will be devoured like the ripe figs
that fall into the mouths
of those who shake the trees.
Nahum 3:12 — The New King James Version (NKJV)
12 All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs:
If they are shaken,
They fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:12 — New Century Version (NCV)
12 All your defenses are like fig trees with ripe fruit.
When the tree is shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:12 — American Standard Version (ASV)
12 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.
Nahum 3:12 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
12 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.
Nahum 3:12 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
12 All your defenses will be like fig trees with the earliest figs.
When shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:12 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
12 All your fortresses are fig trees
with figs that ripened first;
when shaken, they fall—
right into the mouth of the eater!
Nahum 3:12 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
12 All your fortresses are like fig trees
with first-ripe figs—
if shaken they fall
into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:12 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)
12 All of your fortifications are like fig trees with ripe firstfruits—
if they are shaken, they will fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:12 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)
12 All of your forts are like fig trees
that have their first ripe fruit on them.
When the trees are shaken,
the figs fall into the mouths
of those who eat them.