KJV King James Version
For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
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Nahum 1:10
For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
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BSB 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.
WEB World English Bible
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
ASV American Standard Version
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For while princes are perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.
Surrounding context — Nahum 1
7 The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10 For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11 There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller.
12 Thus saith the LORD; Though [they be] quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
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Micah 7:4The 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.Nahum 3:11Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Malachi 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.Jeremiah 51:57And 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, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.Isaiah 9:18For 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.2 Samuel 23:6-7But [the sons] of Belial [shall be] all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:Isaiah 10:17-19And 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;Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.Psalm 68:2As 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 27:4Fury [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.1 Thessalonians 5:2-3For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.2 Samuel 13:28Now 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.1 Samuel 25:36And 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.
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