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Nahum 1:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry.

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The best of them is like a briar; the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchmen, the day of your punishment, is coming; at this time their panic is here.


‘For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘not leaving them root or branches.


You  also will become drunk; you will hide. You also will seek refuge from the enemy.


For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes thorns and briars and kindles the forest thickets so that they go up in a column of smoke.


Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the  Lord of Armies, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.


I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep for ever and never wake up. This is the King’s declaration; the Lord of Armies is his name.


While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they celebrate.  , Then they will fall asleep for ever and never wake up. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


I am not angry. If only there were thorns and briars  for me to battle, I would trample them and burn them to the ground.


Now Absalom commanded his young men, ‘Watch Amnon until he is in a good mood from the wine. When I order you to strike Amnon, then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Am I not the one who has commanded you? Be strong and valiant! ’


Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king.  Nabal’s heart was cheerful,  and he was very drunk, so she didn’t say anything  to him  until morning light.


Look, they are like stubble; fire burns them. They cannot rescue themselves from the power of the flame. This is not a coal for warming themselves, or a fire to sit beside!


‘Come, let me get some wine, let’s guzzle some beer; and tomorrow will be like today, only far better! ’


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


You overthrew your adversaries by your great majesty. You unleashed your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.





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