New King James Version
Nahum 3:11
11You also will be drunk; You will be hidden; You also will seek refuge from the enemy.
Nahum 3:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
- New International Version (NIV)You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You also will be drunken; you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.
- New Living Translation (NLT)And you, Nineveh, will also stagger like a drunkard. You will hide for fear of the attacking enemy.
Context of Nahum 3:11
9Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, And it was boundless; Put and Lubim were your helpers. 10Yet she was carried away, She went into captivity; Her young children also were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound in chains. You also will be drunk; You will be hidden; You also will seek refuge from the enemy. 12All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs: If they are shaken, They fall into the mouth of the eater. 13Surely, your people in your midst are women! The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies; Fire shall devour the bars of your gates.
Read all of Nahum 3Nahum 3:11 word by word
גַּם־אַ֣תְּ תִּשְׁכְּרִ֔י תְּהִ֖י נַֽעֲלָמָ֑ה גַּם־אַ֛תְּ תְּבַקְשִׁ֥י מָע֖וֹז מֵאוֹיֵֽב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Nahum 3:11
- Nahum 1:10For while tangled like thorns, And while drunken like drunkards, They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.
- Psalms 75:8For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, And the wine is red; It is fully mixed, and He pours it out; Surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth Drain and drink down.
- Isaiah 29:9Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; They stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.
- Isaiah 49:26I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, And they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. All flesh shall know That I, the Lord, am your Savior, And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- Isaiah 63:6I have trodden down the peoples in My anger, Made them drunk in My fury, And brought down their strength to the earth.”
- Jeremiah 25:15For thus says the Lord God of Israel to me: “Take this wine cup of fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
- Jeremiah 51:57“And I will make drunk Her princes and wise men, Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake,” says the King, Whose name is the Lord of hosts.
- 1 Samuel 13:6When the men of Israel saw that they were in danger (for the people were distressed), then the people hid in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in holes, and in pits.
- 1 Samuel 14:11So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden.”
- Isaiah 2:10Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, From the terror of the Lord And the glory of His majesty.
- Hosea 10:8Also the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, Shall be destroyed. The thorn and thistle shall grow on their altars; They shall say to the mountains, “Cover us!” And to the hills, “Fall on us!”
- Amos 9:3And though they hide themselves on top of Carmel, From there I will search and take them; Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea, From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
- Micah 7:17They shall lick the dust like a serpent; They shall crawl from their holes like snakes of the earth. They shall be afraid of the Lord our God, And shall fear because of You.
- Luke 23:30Then they will begin ‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!” ’
- Revelation 6:15And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,
- Nahum 2:1He who scatters has come up before your face. Man the fort! Watch the road! Strengthen your flanks! Fortify your power mightily.
Commentaries on Nahum 3:11
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Thou also - As thou hast done, so shall it be done unto thee. The cruelties on No, in the cycle of God‘s judgments, draw on the like upon Nineveh who inflicted them. “Thou also shalt be drunken” with the same cup of God‘s anger, entering within thee as wine doth, bereaving thee of reason and of counsel through the greatness of thy anguish, and bringing shame on thee, and a stupefaction like death. “Thou shalt be hid, a thing hidden” from the eyes of men…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-19Verses 8-19 Strong-holds, even the strongest, are no defence against the judgments of God. They shall be unable to do any thing for themselves. The Chaldeans and Medes would devour the land like canker-worms. The Assyrians also would be eaten up by their own numerous hired troops, which seem to be meant by the word rendered "merchants." Those that have done evil to their neighbours, will find it come home to them. Nineveh, and many other cities, states…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. drunken--made to drink of the cup of Jehovah's wrath (Is 51:17, 21; Jr 25:15). hid--covered out of sight: a prediction remarkably verified in the state in which the ruins of Nineveh have been found [G. V. Smith]. But as "hid" precedes "seek strength," &c., it rather refers to Nineveh's state when attacked by her foe: "Thou who now so vauntest thyself, shalt be compelled to seek a hiding-place from the foe" [Calvin]; or, shalt be neglected and slighted…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Nahum 3
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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