Nahum 1:10

Nahum 1:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
• New International Version (NIV)They will be entangled among thorns and drunk from their wine; they will be consumed like dry stubble.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For while tangled like thorns, And while drunken like drunkards, They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.

Context of Nahum 1:10

8But with an overwhelming flood [of judgment through invading armies] He will make a complete destruction of its site And will pursue His enemies into darkness. 9Whatever [plot] you [Assyrians] devise against the Lord, He will make a complete end of it; Affliction [of God’s people by the hand of Assyria] will not occur twice. Like tangled thorn branches [gathered for fuel], And like those drowned in drunkenness, The people of Nineveh are consumed [through fire] Like stubble completely withered and dry [in the day of the Lord’s wrath]. 11From you [O Nineveh], One has gone forth who plotted evil against the Lord, A malevolent counselor [the king of Assyria]. 12This is what the Lord says, “Though they are at full strength and many in number, Even so, they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you and caused you grief [O Jerusalem], I will afflict you no longer.

Nahum 1:10 word by word

כִּ֚י עַד־סִירִ֣ים סְבֻכִ֔ים וּכְסָבְאָ֖ם סְבוּאִ֑ים אֻ֨כְּל֔וּ כְּקַ֥שׁ יָבֵ֖שׁ מָלֵֽא׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• folden togetherסָבַךְsâbak · to interweaveH5440
• thornsסִירsîyr sîyrâh sirâh · thornH5518
• and while they are drunkenסָבָאsâbâ' · to imbibeH5433
• drunkardsסֹ֫בֶאsôbe' · liquorH5435
• they shall be devouredאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• as stubbleקַשׁqash · stubbleH7179
• fullyמָלֵאmâlê' · fullH4392
• dryיָבֵשׁyâbêsh · dryH3002

Cross-references for Nahum 1:10

• 2 Samuel 23:6But the wicked and worthless are all to be thrown away like thorns, Because they cannot be taken with the hand;
• Micah 7:4The best of them is [injurious] like a briar; The most upright is [prickly] like a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen [that is, the time predicted by the prophets] And your punishment comes; Now shall be their confusion.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:2For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the [return of the] Lord is coming just as a thief [comes unexpectedly and suddenly] in the night.
• Nahum 3:11You too [Nineveh] will become drunk [with the cup of God’s wrath]; You will be hidden. You too [Nineveh] will search [in vain] for a refuge from the enemy.
• 1 Samuel 25:36Then Abigail came to Nabal, and he was holding a feast in his house [for the shearers], like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s mood was joyous because he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.
• 2 Samuel 13:28Now Absalom commanded his servants, “Notice carefully, when Amnon’s heart is joyous with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not be afraid; have I not commanded you myself [and in doing so have I not taken full responsibility for his death]? Be courageous and brave.”
• Jeremiah 51:39When they are inflamed [with wine and lust during their drinking bouts], I will prepare them a feast [of My wrath] And make them drunk, that they may rejoice And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up,” declares the Lord.
• Psalms 68:2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked and guilty perish before [the presence of] God.
• Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns, It even sets the forest thickets ablaze; And it swirls upward in a column of smoke.
• Isaiah 10:17And the Light of Israel will become a fire and His Holy One a flame, And it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and briars in a single day.
• Isaiah 27:4I have no wrath. Should anyone give Me briars and thorns in battle, I would step on them, I would set them all on fire.
• Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant (proud, self-righteous, haughty), and every evildoer shall be stubble; and the day that is coming shall set them on fire,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Commentaries on Nahum 1:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10While they be folden together - However united their counsels may be, they shall be as drunken men - perplexed and unsteady in all their resolutions; and before God's judgments they shall be as dry thorns before a devouring fire.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-15Verses 9-15 There is a great deal plotted against the Lord by the gates of hell, and against his kingdom in the world; but it will prove in vain. With some sinners God makes quick despatch; and one way or other, he will make an utter end of all his enemies. Though they are quiet, and many very secure, and not in fear, they shall be cut down as grass and corn, when the destroying angel passes through. God would hereby work great deliverance for his own…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-11This second stanza (see study note on Nahum 1:2–11) focuses on God’s rule, righteousness, and justice in the way he deals with all people.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. while they are folden together as thorns--literally, "to the same degree as thorns" (compare 1Ch 4:27, Margin). As thorns, so folded together and entangled that they cannot be loosed asunder without trouble, are thrown by the husbandmen all in a mass into the fire, so the Assyrians shall all be given together to destruction. Compare 2Sa 23:6, 7, where also "thorns" are the image of the wicked. As this image represents the speediness of their…Read the comment

Topics related to Nahum 1:10

• Drunkard
• Drunkenness
• Stubble
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Adversary
• Prophecy
• Vengeance
• Wine
• Entangle
• Fold; Folding
• Job, Book of
• Nahum; the Book of
• Thorns, Thistles, Etc.
• Wine; Wine Press

Commentaries on Nahum 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings