Nahum 1:10

In 11 translations

BSB

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

KJV

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

WEB

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

ASV

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

LSV

For while princes [are] perplexed, || And with their drink are drunken, || They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

YLT

For while princes [are] perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

DBY

Though they be tangled together [as] thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.

DRC

For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.

GNV

For he shall come as vnto thornes folden one in another, and as vnto drunkards in their drunkennesse: they shall be deuoured as stubble fully dryed.

JPS

For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

LXXE

For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.

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WLC

כִּ֚י עַד־סִירִ֣ים סְבֻכִ֔ים וּכְסָבְאָ֖ם סְבוּאִ֑ים אֻ֨כְּל֔וּ כְּקַ֥שׁ יָבֵ֖שׁ מָלֵֽא׃

LXX-Br

Ὅτι ἕως θεμελίου αὐτοῦ χερσωθήσεται· καὶ ὡς σμῖλαξ περιπλεκομένη βρωθήσεται, καὶ ὡς καλάμη ξηρασίας μεστή.

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• Micah 7:4The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.
• Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be…
• Nahum 3:11You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.
• Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of…
• 2 Samuel 23:6–7But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand. The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where…
• Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
• Jeremiah 51:57I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
• Isaiah 27:4I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and…
• Jeremiah 51:39While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
• Psalms 68:2As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.
• Isaiah 10:17–19And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles. The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will…
• 2 Samuel 13:28Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and…
• 1 Samuel 25:36When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

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