Nahum 1:10

Bible in Basic English 1965

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.

Psalm 118:12

They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

Psalm 68:2

Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.

Exodus 15:7

When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.

Exodus 5:12

So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.

Isaiah 27:4

My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.

Isaiah 47:14

Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

Isaiah 5:24

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 56:12

Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

Isaiah 9:18

For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

Jeremiah 51:39

When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:57

And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.

Nahum 3:11

And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.

Malachi 4:1

For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

1 Samuel 25:36

And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.