Nahum 1:10
For while princes [are] perplexed, || And with their drink are drunken, || They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.
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In Context
9What do we devise against YHWH? He is making an end, distress does not arise twice.
11From you has come forth a deviser of evil || Against YHWH—a worthless counselor.
Cross References
Exodus 15:7And in the abundance of Your excellence || You throw down Your withstanders, || You send forth Your wrath—It consumes them as stubble.
2 Samuel 13:28And Absalom commands his young men, saying, “Now see, when the heart of Amnon [is] glad with wine, and I have said to you, Strike Amnon, that you have put him to death; do not fear; is it not because I have commanded you? Be strong, indeed, become sons of valor.”
Psalms 68:2You drive them away as the driving away of smoke, || As the melting of wax before fire, || The wicked perish at the presence of God.
Isaiah 9:18For wickedness has burned as a fire, || It devours brier and thorn, || And it kindles in thickets of the forest, || And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!
Isaiah 27:4Fury is not in Me; Who gives Me a brier—a thorn in battle? I step into it, || I burn it at once.
Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I make their banquets, || And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, || And have slept a continuous sleep, || And do not awaken,” a declaration of YHWH.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 1:10-15
Destruction of the Assyrian Army; Overthrow of Sennacherib. ( b. c. 710.) 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 counsellor. 12 Thus saith the Lord ; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when… Read the whole commentary →