Nahum 3:11
And thou shalt be drunken, and shalt be overlooked; and thou shalt seek for thyself strength because of thine enemies.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 they both went in to Messab of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of their caves, where they had hidden themselves.
Isaiah 2:10Now therefore enter ye into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.
Isaiah 29:9Faint ye, and be amazed, and be overpowered, not with strong drink nor with wine.
Isaiah 63:6And I trampled them in mine anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.
Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before him.
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 →