“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Nahum 3 contains 19 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.