Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
with figs that ripened first;
when shaken, they fall—
right into the mouth of the eater!
International Standard Version
All your defenses are like fig trees with ripe early fruit when shaken, it falls right into the devourer's mouth.
A Conservative Version
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.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
All your fortresses are [nothing but] fig trees with ripe figs—
When shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
All thy fortresses, fig trees with the early figs: if they shall be shaken, and they fell into the mouth of him eating
King James 2000
All your strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs: if they are shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All of your fortifications [are like] fig trees with [ripe] firstfruits-- if they are shaken, they will fall into the mouth of the eater.
Modern King James verseion
All your strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first fruits; if they are shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
All thy strong cities shall be like fig trees with ripe figs: which when a man shaketh, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
NET Bible
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!
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
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.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
All thy fortresses are fig-trees with first-fruits, If they are shaken, They have fallen into the mouth of the eater.
Interlinear
Bikkuwr
Nuwa`
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 3:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Nineveh's Defenses Will Fail
11
Nineveh, you will stagger like a drunk. You will disappear. You will look for a fortress to escape from the enemy.
12
When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.
Cross References
Revelation 6:13
The stars of the sky fell to the earth, even as a fig tree drops her unripe figs when she is shaken by a mighty wind.
Isaiah 28:4
The fading flower of his glorious beauty is found at the head of the fertile valley. He looks at the first-ripe fig before the summer. He picks it with his hand and eats it.
Habakkuk 1:10
They scoff at kings, and princes are derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build earthen ramps and capture them.