Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They will be entangled among thorns and drunk from their wine; they will be consumed like dry stubble. New Living Translation His enemies, tangled like thornbushes and staggering like drunks, will be burned up like dry stubble in a field. English Standard Version For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried. Berean Standard Bible For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry. King James Bible For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. New King James Version For while tangled like thorns, And while drunken like drunkards, They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried. New American Standard Bible Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed Like stubble completely dried up. NASB 1995 Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed As stubble completely withered. NASB 1977 Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed As stubble completely withered. Legacy Standard Bible Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed As stubble fully dried up. Amplified Bible Like tangled thorn branches [gathered for fuel], And like those drowned in drunkenness, The people of Nineveh are consumed [through fire] Like stubble completely withered and dry [in the day of the LORD’S wrath]. Christian Standard Bible For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry. Holman Christian Standard Bible For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry. American Standard Version For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because they are rebellious towards their Rulers and in their drunkenness they drink and they eat and they are filled with dried stubble Brenton Septuagint Translation For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry. Contemporary English Version They are like drunkards overcome by wine, or like twisted thornbushes burning in a fire. Douay-Rheims Bible For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry. English Revised Version For though they be like tangled thorns, told be drenched as it were in their drink, they shall be devoured utterly as dry stubble. GOD'S WORD® Translation [The people of Nineveh will be] like tangled thorns and like people drunk on their own drink. They will be completely burned up like very dry straw. Good News Translation Like tangled thorns and dry straw you drunkards will be burned up! International Standard Version Indeed, while tangled as by a thorn bush, while drunken as by a strong drink, the Ninevites will be burned like dry straw. JPS Tanakh 1917 For though they be like tangled thorns, And be drunken according to their drink, They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. Literal Standard Version For while princes [are] perplexed, | And with their drink are drunken, | They have been consumed as stubble fully dried. Majority Standard Bible For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry. New American Bible Like a thorny thicket, they are tangled, and like drunkards, they are drunk; like dry stubble, they are utterly consumed. NET Bible Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble. New Revised Standard Version Like thorns they are entangled, like drunkards they are drunk; they are consumed like dry straw. New Heart English Bible For entangled like thorns, and drunk as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble. Webster's Bible Translation For while they are folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. World English Bible For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble. Young's Literal Translation For while princes are perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Oracle of Nineveh…9Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time. 10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry. 11From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.… Cross References 2 Samuel 23:6 But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand. Psalm 118:12 They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off. Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, 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 Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke. Isaiah 10:17 And 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. Isaiah 47:14 Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside. Isaiah 56:12 "Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!" Treasury of Scripture For while they be entwined together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. while they be. 2 Samuel 23:6,7 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: … Micah 7:4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. 1 Thessalonians 5:2,3 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night… drunken. Nahum 3:11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. 1 Samuel 25:36 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 drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. 2 Samuel 13:28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. they shall. Psalm 68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. Isaiah 10:17-19 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; … Jump to Previous Completely Consumed Destruction Devoured Dried Drink Drunk Drunkards Drunken Dry Entangled Folded Fully Grass Overcome Perplexed Princes Stems Stubble Thorns Together Twisted Utterly Wine WitheredJump to Next Completely Consumed Destruction Devoured Dried Drink Drunk Drunkards Drunken Dry Entangled Folded Fully Grass Overcome Perplexed Princes Stems Stubble Thorns Together Twisted Utterly Wine WitheredNahum 1 1. The majesty of God in goodness to his people, and severity against his enemies.(10) For while.--Better, For they shall be even as bundles of thorn fagots, and even while steeped in their drink they shall be burnt up like stubble fully dry. Dry thorn cuttings were commonly used as fuel. (See Psalm 58:9; Psalm 118:12; Ecclesiastes 7:6.) The verse compares the victims of Jehovah's wrath, first, to a compact bundle of thorn fagots; secondly, to a material equally combustible, the dry straw and stubble of the threshing-floor. With regard to the words "while steeped in their drink," it may be remarked that in the final siege of Nineveh a great defeat of its forces was effected by a surprise while the king and his captains were sunk in revelry (Diod. Sic. ii. 26). Benhadad, king of Syria, and Belshazzar, king of Babylon, were overcome under similar circumstances (1Kings 1:16; Daniel 5:1-30). Feasting and revelry may have gone on in Sennacherib's camp at the moment when the sudden visitation of the "angel of the Lord" was impending; but on this point we have no information. The introduction of this detail adds to the metaphor a certain grim humour. Soaked in wine though the enemy be, he shall surely burn like driest fuel in the day of Jehovah's fiery wrath. The opening clause of the verse is beset with difficulties, both grammatical and lexical. Kleinert renders "For in thorns they shall be entangled," &c.; Ewald and Hitzig, "For even though they be compact as a wickerwork of thorns," &c.Verse 10. - While they be folden together as thorns. The clause is conditional: "Though they be interwined as thorns." Though the Assyrians present an impenetrable front, which seems to defy attack. (For the comparison of a hostile army to briers and thorns, see Isaiah 10:17; Isaiah 27:4; Henderson.) And while they are drunken as drunkards; and though they be drunken with their drink, regarding themselves as invincible, and drenched with wine, and given up to luxury and excess. There may be an allusion to the legend current concerning the destruction of Nineveh. Diodorus (2:26) relates that, after the enemy had been thrice repulsed, the King of Nineveh was so elated that he gave himself up to festivity, and allowed all his army to indulge in the utmost licence, and that it was while they were occupied in drunkenness and feasting they were surprised by the Medes under Cyaxares, and their city taken. An account of such a feast, accompanied with sketehes from the monuments, is given in Bonomi, 'Nineveh and its Discoveries,' p. 187, etc. We may compare the fate of Belshazzar (Daniel 5:1, etc.). They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry; like worthless refuse, fit only for burning (Exodus 15:7; Isaiah 5:24; Joel 2:5; Obadiah 1:18). The LXX. renders this verse differently, "Because to its foundation it shall be dried up (χερσωθήσεται: redigentur in vepres, Jerome), and as bind weed (σμῖλαξ) intertwined it shall be devoured, and as stubble fully dry." Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּ֚י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction they will be entangled סְבֻכִ֔ים (sə·ḇu·ḵîm) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural Strong's 5440: To interweave as with עַד־ (‘aḏ-) Preposition Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while thorns סִירִ֣ים (sî·rîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 5518: A pot, a thorn, a hook and consumed אֻ֨כְּל֔וּ (’uk·kə·lū) Verb - QalPass - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 398: To eat like the drink וּכְסָבְאָ֖ם (ū·ḵə·sā·ḇə·’ām) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 5435: A drink, liquor of a drunkard— סְבוּאִ֑ים (sə·ḇū·’îm) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural Strong's 5433: To quaff to satiety, become tipsy like stubble כְּקַ֥שׁ (kə·qaš) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7179: Stubble, chaff that is fully מָלֵֽא׃ (mā·lê) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of dry. יָבֵ֖שׁ (yā·ḇêš) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 3002: Dry, dried Links Nahum 1:10 NIVNahum 1:10 NLT Nahum 1:10 ESV Nahum 1:10 NASB Nahum 1:10 KJV Nahum 1:10 BibleApps.com Nahum 1:10 Biblia Paralela Nahum 1:10 Chinese Bible Nahum 1:10 French Bible Nahum 1:10 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Nahum 1:10 For entangled like thorns and drunken as (Nah. 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