Nahum 1:10
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
11One has gone out of you who devises evil against the LORD, who counsels wickedness.
Cross References
Exodus 15:7In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
2 Samuel 13:28Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
Psalms 68:2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 27:4Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
Jeremiah 51:39When they are inflamed, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the LORD.
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 →