Then Absalom commanded his young men saying, “Now watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine. When I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon!’ then put him to death! Have no fear! Isn’t it I who commanded you? Be strong! Be sons of valor!”
Nahum 1:10 - Tree of Life Version For even like tangled thorns they will be consumed, or like drunkards who are drunk, or like stubble that is 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. |
Then Absalom commanded his young men saying, “Now watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine. When I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon!’ then put him to death! Have no fear! Isn’t it I who commanded you? Be strong! Be sons of valor!”
They swarmed around me like bees— they were extinguished like burning thorns— in the Name of Adonai I cut them off.
Let God arise! Let His enemies be scattered! Let those who hate Him flee before Him.
In the greatness of Your excellency You overthrow those who resist You. You send forth Your wrath— it consumes them as stubble.
So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
It is not that I have wrath. Who would give me thorns and thistles? Into battle I would march against them! I would burn them up altogether!
Behold, they shall be as stubble. Fire will consume them. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame! It is not a coal for warming by or a fire to sit before!
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw, and as chaff collapses into the flame, so their root will be like rot, and their blossom will go up like dust. For they have rejected the Torah of Adonai–Tzva’ot, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
“Come, let’s get wine, let’s guzzle strong drink. Tomorrow will be like today, only even better!”
By the wrath of Adonai-Tzva’ot is the land burnt up; The people are as fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.
When they become hot, I will set out a banquet for them and will make them so drunk that they become merry— and then sleep a perpetual sleep and never awake.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
“I will intoxicate her officials and sages, her governors, deputies, and warriors, and they will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake.” It is a declaration of the King, whose Name is Adonai-Tzva’ot.
The best of them is like a prickly bush, the most upright like a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen— of your visitation—is coming. Then their confusion will occur.
You too will become drunk. You will hide yourself. You too will seek refuge from an enemy.
Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was holding a banquet in his house like that of a king—Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was quite drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.