Nahum 1:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.”
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For while princes <FI>are<Fi> perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Nahum 1:10 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 5:12So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- Exodus 15:7You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
- 1 Samuel 25:36When 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 13:28Now 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 valiant!”
- 2 Samuel 23:6But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
- Psalms 68:2As 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 5:24Therefore, 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 Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
- Isaiah 10:17And 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 27:4I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
- Isaiah 47:14Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
- Jeremiah 51:39While 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.
- Jeremiah 51:57I 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.
- Micah 7:4The 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.
- Nahum 3:11You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.
- Malachi 4:1“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 to them.”
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
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