And Aḇshalom had commanded his servants, saying, “Watch, and when the heart of Amnon is glad with wine, and I shall say to you, ‘Strike Amnon!’ then kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and brave.”
Nahum 1:10 - The Scriptures 2009 Though they are as entangled thorns, and as drunkards with their drink, they shall be consumed like stubble thoroughly dried. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For [the Ninevites] are as bundles of thorn branches [for fuel], and even while drowned in their drunken [carousing] they shall be consumed like stubble fully dry [in the day of the Lord's wrath]. [Mal. 4:1.] American Standard Version (1901) For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble. Common English Bible They are tangled up like thorns, like drunkards in their cups. They are consumed like stubble that is entirely dried up. Catholic Public Domain Version For just as thorns entwine one another, so also, while they are feasting and drinking together, they will be consumed like stubble that is completely dry. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry. |
And Aḇshalom had commanded his servants, saying, “Watch, and when the heart of Amnon is glad with wine, and I shall say to you, ‘Strike Amnon!’ then kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and brave.”
They surrounded me like bees; They were extinguished like burning thorns; In the Name of יהוה I shall cut them off.
As smoke is driven away, You drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, The wrong perish before Elohim.
“And in the greatness of Your excellence You pulled down those who rose up against You. You sent forth Your wrath, it consumed them like stubble.
And the people were scattered in all the land of Mitsrayim – to gather stubble for straw.
“Wrath is not in Me. Who would set thornbushes and weeds against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
“See, they shall be as stubble, fire shall burn them, they do not deliver themselves from the power of the flame, there is not a coal to be warmed by, nor a fire to sit before it!
Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, their root is as rottenness, and their blossom goes up like dust – because they have rejected the Torah of יהוה of hosts, and despised the Word of the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl.
“Come, let me bring wine and fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as today, even much greater.”
For wrongness burns as the fire; it consumes thornbushes and weeds, and sets the bushes of the forest ablaze, and they roll up like rising smoke.
“In their heat I prepare their feasts. And I shall make them drunk, so that they rejoice, and sleep a neverending sleep and not awake,” declares יהוה.
“And I shall make her rulers drunk, and her wise men, her governors, and her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a lasting sleep, and not awake,” declares the Sovereign, whose Name is יהוה of hosts.
The best of them is like a prickly plant, the most straight is sharper than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchman and your punishment has come, now is their confusion.
You too are to become drunk, you are to go into hiding. You too are to seek refuge from the enemy.
“For look, the day shall come, burning like a furnace, and all the proud, and every wrongdoer shall be stubble. And the day that shall come shall burn them up,” said יהוה of hosts, “which leaves to them neither root nor branch.
And Aḇiḡayil went to Naḇal, and see, he was at a feast in his house, like the feast of a sovereign. And Naḇal’s heart was glad within him, and he was exceedingly drunk. So she told him not a word, little or much, until morning light.