Nahum 3:12
Common English Bible
12 All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit;
when the trees are shaken, the fruit falls into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:12
Contemporary English Version
12 Your fortresses are fig trees
with ripe figs.
Merely shake the trees,
and fruit will fall
into every open mouth.
Nahum 3:12
Living Bible
12 All your forts will fall. They will be devoured like first-ripe figs that fall into the mouths of those who shake the trees.
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Nahum 3:12
Easy-to-Read Version
12 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.
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Nahum 3:12
New Living Translation
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.
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