Nahum 1:10

New Century Version

Those people will be like tangled thorns or like people drunk from their wine; they will be burned up quickly like dry weeds.

Cross References

Micah 7:4

Even the best of them is like a thornbush; the most honest of them is worse than a prickly plant. The day that your watchmen warned you about has come. Now they will be confused.

Malachi 4:1

“There is a day coming that will burn like a hot furnace, and all the proud and evil people will be like straw. On that day they will be completely burned up so that not a root or branch will be left,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

Nahum 3:11

Nineveh, you will be drunk, too. You will hide; you will look for a place safe from the enemy.

Isaiah 9:18

Evil is like a small fire. First, it burns weeds and thorns. Next, it burns the larger bushes in the forest, and they all go up in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 5:24

They will be destroyed just as fire burns straw or dry grass. They will be destroyed like a plant whose roots rot and whose flower dies and blows away like dust. They have refused to obey the teachings of the Lord All-Powerful and have hated the message from the Holy God of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make Babylon’s rulers and wise men drunk, and her governors, officers, and soldiers, too. Then they will sleep forever and never wake up,” says the King, whose name is the Lord All-Powerful.

Jeremiah 51:39

While they are stirred up, I will give a feast for them and make them drunk. They will shout and laugh. And they will sleep forever and never wake up!” says the Lord.

Isaiah 27:4

I am not angry. If anyone builds a wall of thornbushes in war, I will march to it and burn it.

Psalm 68:2

Blow them away as smoke is driven away by the wind. As wax melts before a fire, let the wicked be destroyed before God.

2 Samuel 13:28

Then Absalom instructed his servants, “Watch Amnon. When he is drunk, I will tell you, ‘Kill Amnon.’ Right then, kill him! Don’t be afraid, because I have commanded you! Be strong and brave!”

1 Samuel 25:36

When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was in the house, eating like a king. He was very drunk and in a good mood. So she told him nothing until the next morning.

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like a swarm of bees, but they died as quickly as thorns burn. By the Lord’s power, I defeated them.

Isaiah 47:14

But they are like straw; fire will quickly burn them up. They cannot save themselves from the power of the fire. They are not like coals that give warmth nor like a fire that you may sit beside.

Isaiah 56:12

They say, “Come, let’s drink some wine; let’s drink all the beer we want. And tomorrow we will do this again, or, maybe we will have an even better time.”

Exodus 5:12

So the people went everywhere in Egypt looking for dry stalks to use for straw.

Exodus 15:7

In your great victory you destroyed those who were against you. Your anger destroyed them, like fire burning straw.