Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Strike Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
Nahum 1:10 - King James 2000 For while they are entangled together as thorns, and while they are drunk as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For [the Ninevites] are as bundles of thorn branches [for fuel], and even while drowned in their drunken [carousing] they shall be consumed like stubble fully dry [in the day of the Lord's wrath]. [Mal. 4:1.] American Standard Version (1901) For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble. Common English Bible They are tangled up like thorns, like drunkards in their cups. They are consumed like stubble that is entirely dried up. Catholic Public Domain Version For just as thorns entwine one another, so also, while they are feasting and drinking together, they will be consumed like stubble that is completely dry. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry. |
Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Strike Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
They encompassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Come you, they say, I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
For wickedness burns as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the rising of smoke.
In their excitement I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
The best of them is like a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen and your punishment comes; now shall be their perplexity.
You also shall be drunk: you shall be hidden, you also shall seek refuge from the enemy.
For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk: therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until the morning light.