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Nahum 3:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

Nahum 3:12

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10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

11 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

12 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.

13 Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

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Jeremiah 5:17

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"They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword."

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Deuteronomy 28:51

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"You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you."

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"He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!"

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Nahum 3:1

"Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey."

Nahum 3:2

"The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,"

Nahum 3:3

"the horseman charging, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies"

Nahum 3:4

"because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft."

Nahum 3:5

"“Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame."

Nahum 3:6

"I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle."

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