Nahum 1:10

New American Bible - revised edition

Like a thorny thicket, they are tangled, and like drunkards, they are drunk; like dry stubble, they are utterly consumed.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

But Absalom had instructed his attendants: “Now watch! When Amnon is merry with wine and I say to you, ‘Kill Amnon,’ put him to death. Do not be afraid, for it is I who order you to do it. Be strong and act like warriors.” Death of Amnon.

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees; they burned up like fire among thorns; in the Lord’s name I cut them off.

Psalm 68:2

May God arise; may his enemies be scattered; may those who hate him flee before him.

Exodus 15:7

In your great majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you loosed your wrath to consume them like stubble.

Exodus 5:12

The people, then, scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw,

Isaiah 27:4

I am not angry. But if I were to find briers and thorns, In battle I would march against it; I would burn it all.

Isaiah 47:14

See, they are like stubble, fire consumes them; They cannot deliver themselves from the spreading flames. This is no warming ember, no fire to sit before!

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire licks up stubble, as dry grass shrivels in the flame, Their root shall rot and their blossom scatter like dust; For they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts, and scorned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come, let me bring wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink, And tomorrow will be like today, or even greater.”

Isaiah 9:18

At the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land quakes, and the people are like fuel for fire; no one spares his brother.

Jeremiah 51:39

When they are parched, I will set drink before them to make them drunk, that they may be overcome with everlasting sleep, never to awaken— oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make her princes and sages drunk, with her governors, officers, and warriors, so that they sleep an everlasting sleep, never to awaken—oracle of the King, whose name is Lord of hosts.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a brier, the most honest like a thorn hedge. The day announced by your sentinels! Your punishment has come; now is the time of your confusion.

Nahum 3:11

You, too, will drink of this; you will be overcome; You, too, will seek a refuge from the foe.

1 Samuel 25:36

When Abigail came to Nabal, he was hosting a banquet in his house like that of a king, and Nabal was in a festive mood and very drunk. So she said not a word to him until daybreak the next morning.