Nahum 3:11
Even you are drunken, you are hidden, || Even you seek a strong place, because of an enemy.
Literal Standard 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 are revealed to the station of the Philistines, and the Philistines say, “Behold, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hid themselves.”
Isaiah 2:10Enter into a rock, and be hidden in dust, || Because of the fear of YHWH, || And because of the honor of His excellence.
Isaiah 29:9Linger and wonder, look, indeed, look, || Be drunk, and not with wine, || Stagger, and not with strong drink.
Isaiah 63:6And I tread down peoples in My anger, || And I make them drunk in My fury, || And I bring down their strength to earth.”
Jeremiah 8:14Why are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go into the fortified cities, || And we are silent there, || For our God YHWH has made us silent, || Indeed, He causes us to drink water of gall, || For we have sinned against YHWH.
Jeremiah 25:27“And you have said to them, Thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: Drink, indeed drink abundantly, || And vomit, and fall, and do not rise, || Because of the sword that I am sending 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 →