Nahum 1:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Like thorns they are entangled; like drunkards they are drunk; they are consumed like dry straw.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28

Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Watch when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not be afraid; have I not myself commanded you? Be courageous and valiant.”

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees; they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

Psalm 68:2

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish before God.

Exodus 15:7

In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you sent out your fury; it consumed them like stubble.

Exodus 5:12

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

Isaiah 27:4

I have no wrath. If it gives me thorns and briers, I will march to battle against it. I will burn it up.

Isaiah 47:14

See, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become rotten, and their blossom go up like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 56:12

“Come,” they say, “let us get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow will be like today, great beyond measure.”

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burned like a fire, consuming briers and thorns; it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.

Jeremiah 51:39

When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink and make them drunk, until they become merry and then sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make her officials and her sages drunk, also her governors, her deputies, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of their sentinels, of their punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.

Nahum 3:11

You also will be drunken; you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.

Malachi 4:1

See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

1 Samuel 25:36

Abigail came to Nabal; he was holding a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk, so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.