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 overflowing flood He will make a complete end of its site, And will pursue His enemies into darkness. 9Whatever you devise against the Lord, He will make a complete end of it. Distress will not rise up twice. Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed Like stubble completely dried up. 11From you has gone out One who plotted evil against the Lord, A wicked counselor. 12This is what the Lord says: “Though they are at full strength and so they are many, So also they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, 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

• Likeעַד‛ad · tillH5704
• tangledסָבַךְsâbak · to interweaveH5440
• thornsסִירsîyr sîyrâh sirâh · thornH5518
• drunkenסָבָאsâbâ' · to imbibeH5433
• with their drinkסֹ֫בֶאsôbe' · liquorH5435
• consumedאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• Like stubbleקַשׁqash · stubbleH7179
• completelyמָלֵאmâlê' · fullH4392
• driedיָבֵשׁyâbêsh · dryH3002

Cross-references for Nahum 1:10

• 2 Samuel 23:6But the worthless, every one of them, are like scattered thorns, Because they cannot be taken in hand;
• Micah 7:4The best of them is like a thorn bush, The most upright like a thorn hedge. The day when you post your watchmen, Your punishment is coming. Then their confusion will occur.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:2For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord is coming just like a thief in the night.
• Nahum 3:11You too will become drunk, You will be hidden. You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.
• 1 Samuel 25:36Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was having a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was cheerful within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light.
• 2 Samuel 13:28Then Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “See now, when Amnon’s heart is cheerful with wine, and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then put him to death. Do not fear; have I not commanded you myself? Be courageous and be valiant.”
• Jeremiah 51:39When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, so that they may rejoice in triumph, 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 a fire, So the wicked will perish before God.
• Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns; It also sets the thickets of the forest aflame And they roll upward in a column of smoke.
• Isaiah 10:17And the Light of Israel will become a fire and Israel’s Holy One a flame, And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.
• Isaiah 27:4I have no wrath. Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely.
• Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branches.

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.
• Nineveh

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