Nahum 1:10

For while they are entangled like thorns, And like those that are drunk with wine, They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

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In The King James Version

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

In Context

9What do ye meditate against Jehovah? He will make a full end; Not the second time shall the calamity come.

11From thee hath gone forth one that devised evil against Jehovah; That meditated destruction.

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Cross References

Psalms 68:2As smoke is dispersed, so thou dispersest them; As wax melteth before the fire, So perish the wicked before the face of God.

Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burneth like a fire, It consumeth the briers and thorns, And it kindleth the thicket of the forest, So that it goeth up in columns of smoke.

Isaiah 27:4There is no fury in me; But let me find the thorns and thistles in battle. I will go against them, And burn them up together,

Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I will prepare them a drink, And will make them drunk, so that they shall rejoice, And then sleep an everlasting sleep, And awake no more, saith Jehovah.

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 →

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