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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For while tangled like thorns, And while drunken like drunkards, They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.
• New Living Translation (NLT)His enemies, tangled like thornbushes and staggering like drunks, will be burned up like dry stubble in a field.

Context of Nahum 1:10

8But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. 9What do you plot against the Lord? He will make a complete end; trouble will not rise up a second time. For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried. 11From you came one who plotted evil against the Lord, a worthless counselor. 12Thus says the Lord, "Though they are at full strength and many, they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

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 worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be taken with the hand;
• Micah 7:4The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:2For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
• Nahum 3:11You also will be drunken; you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.
• 1 Samuel 25:36And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until the morning light.
• 2 Samuel 13:28Then Absalom commanded his servants, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant."
• Jeremiah 51:39While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the Lord.
• Psalms 68:2As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God!
• Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
• Isaiah 10:17The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
• Isaiah 27:4I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.
• Malachi 4:1"For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, 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