Nahum 1:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁰ Like entangled thorns they are consumed, like dry stubble.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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)

¹⁰ For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.

Nahum 1:10 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Fear not; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees, they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

Psalm 68:2

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before fire, let the wicked perish before God!

Exodus 15:7

In the greatness of thy majesty thou overthrowest thy adversaries; thou sendest forth thy fury, it consumes them like stubble.

Exodus 5:12

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.

Isaiah 27:4

I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would set out against them, I would burn them up together.

Isaiah 47:14

Behold, they are like stubble, the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” they say, “let us get wine, let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure.”

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire, it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Jeremiah 51:39

While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, till they swoon away and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of their watchmen, of their punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.

Nahum 3:11

You also will be drunken, you will be dazed; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.

Malachi 4:1

“For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

1 Samuel 25:36

And Abigail came to Nabal; and lo, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.