Isa 34:4, Nah 3:12 | JFB | STEP | 4. ( ). dissolved — ( ). Violent convulsions of nature are in Scripture made the images of great changes in the human world ( ), and shall literally accompany them at the winding up of the present dispensation. scroll —Books were in those days sheets of parchment rolled together ( ). fall down —The stars shall fall when the heavens in which they are fixed pass away. fig tree

Isaiah 34:4

4. (Ps 102:26; Joe 2:31; 3:15; Mt 24:29).

dissolved— (2Pe 3:10-12). Violent convulsions of nature are in Scripture made the images of great changes in the human world (Isa 24:19-21), and shall literally accompany them at the winding up of the present dispensation.

scroll—Books were in those days sheets of parchment rolled together (Re 6:14).

fall down—The stars shall fall when the heavens in which they are fixed pass away.

fig tree— (Re 6:13).

Nahum 3:12

12. thy strongholds—on the borders of Assyria, protecting the approaches to Nineveh: "the gates of thy land" (Na 3:13).

fig trees with the first ripe figs—expressing the rapidity and ease of the capture of Nineveh (compare Isa 28:4; Re 6:13).