Nahum 3:11
Thou also shall be drunken. Thou shall be hid. Thou also shall seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:11And both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
Isaiah 2:10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of LORD, and from the glory of his majesty.
Isaiah 29:9Tarry ye and wonder, take your pleasure and be blind. They are drunken, but not with wine. They stagger, but not with strong drink.
Isaiah 63:6And I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.
Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against LORD.
Jeremiah 25:27And thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:9-19
The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. 11… Read the whole commentary →