Revised Version 1895
Nahum 1:10
10For though they be like tangled thorns, told be drenched as it were in their drink, they shall be devoured utterly as dry stubble.
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 overrunning flood he will make a full end of the place thereof, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. 9What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make a full end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. For though they be like tangled thorns, told be drenched as it were in their drink, they shall be devoured utterly as dry stubble. 11There is one gone forth out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, that counselleth wickedness. 12Thus saith the LORD: Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so shall they be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
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כִּ֚י עַד־סִירִ֣ים סְבֻכִ֔ים וּכְסָבְאָ֖ם סְבוּאִ֑ים אֻ֨כְּל֔וּ כְּקַ֥שׁ יָבֵ֖שׁ מָלֵֽא׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Nahum 1:10
- 2 Samuel 23:6But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, for they cannot be taken with the hand:
- Micah 7:4The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
- Nahum 3:11Thou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a strong hold because of the enemy.
- 1 Samuel 25:36And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
- 2 Samuel 13:28And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I say unto you, smite Amnon, then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
- Jeremiah 51:39When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
- Psalms 68:2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
- Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns: yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in thick clouds of smoke.
- Isaiah 10:17And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
- Isaiah 27:4Fury is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.
- Malachi 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall 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
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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
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