Nahum 3:11
You too will behave like a drunk. You will hide in fear, trying to find a place safe from the enemy.
Free Bible 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 14:11So both of them let themselves be seen by the Philistine garrison. “Hey, look!” shouted the Philistines. “The Hebrews are coming out of the holes they were hiding in.”
Isaiah 2:10Run away into rock caves, hide underground from the terrifying presence of the Lord, from the glory of his majesty.
Isaiah 29:9Be shocked and amazed! Make yourselves blind so you can't see! Get drunk, but not from wine! Stagger around, but not from beer!
Isaiah 63:6I trampled down the nations in my anger; in my fury I made them drunk, and spilled their blood upon the ground.
Jeremiah 8:14The people say, “Why are we sitting around here? Let's get together and run to the fortified towns. We can die there, for the Lord our God is killing us by giving us poisoned water to drink, because we sinned against him.
Jeremiah 25:27Tell them this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, make yourselves drunk, and vomit. Because of the war you'll be killed, falling down never to get up again.
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 →