Nahum 1:10 “For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink…”

Nahum 1:10

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

World English Bible

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

American Standard Version

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

Geneva Bible 1599

For he shall come as vnto thornes folden one in another, and as vnto drunkards in their drunkennesse: they shall be deuoured as stubble fully dryed.

Darby Translation

Though they be tangled together [as] thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.

Young's Literal Translation

For while princes [are] perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

Bible in Basic English

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

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Cross references

“while they be”

Micah 7:4 2 Samuel 23:6 2 Samuel 23:7 1 Thessalonians 5:2 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Micah 7:4 · BSB

The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.

2 Samuel 23:6 · BSB

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

2 Samuel 23:7 · BSB

The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”

1 Thessalonians 5:2 · BSB

For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 · BSB

While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

“drunken”

Nahum 3:11 Jeremiah 51:57 Jeremiah 51:39 1 Samuel 25:36 2 Samuel 13:28

Nahum 3:11 · BSB

You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

Jeremiah 51:57 · BSB

I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

Jeremiah 51:39 · BSB

While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

1 Samuel 25:36 · BSB

When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

2 Samuel 13:28 · BSB

Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valian…

“they shall”

Malachi 4:1 Isaiah 9:18 Psalm 68:2 Isaiah 10:17–19 Isaiah 27:4

Malachi 4:1 · BSB

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left…

Isaiah 9:18 · BSB

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.

Psalm 68:2 · BSB

As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

Isaiah 10:17–19 · BSB

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

Isaiah 27:4 · BSB

I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

Also

Isaiah 5:24

Isaiah 5:24 · BSB

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Host…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.

11From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.

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