Nahum 1:10 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁰ For though they be like tangled thorns, told be drenched as it were in their drink, they shall be devoured utterly as 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

And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I say unto you, smite Amnon, then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.

Psalm 118:12

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of the LORD I will cut them off.

Psalm 68:2

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Exodus 15:7

And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.

Exodus 5:12

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

Isaiah 27:4

Fury is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.

Isaiah 47:14

Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 56:12

Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, a day great beyond measure.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns: yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in thick clouds of smoke.

Jeremiah 51:39

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:57

And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.

Nahum 3:11

Thou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a strong hold because of the enemy.

Malachi 4:1

For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

1 Samuel 25:36

And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.