Nahum 1:10 KJV — MannaFest

Nahum 1:10

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

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ASV

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

WEB

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

YLT

For while princes are perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

DBT

Though they be tangled together [as] thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.

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Nahum — A century after Jonah, Nineveh is still Nineveh — and Nahum's burden is the city's destruction. Three short chapters of breathtaking poetry on the fall of Assyria's capital.

Author: Nahum the Elkoshite (1:1)
Date: Between 663 BC (the fall of Thebes, 3:8) and 612 BC (Nineveh's actual fall)

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Micah 7:4
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Nahum 3:11
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, 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.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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Let each take his portion from it; let sinners read it and tremble; let saints read it and triumph. The wrath of God is here revealed from heaven against him enemies, his favour and mercy are here assured to his faithful loyal subjects, and his almighty power in both, making his wrath very terrible and his favour very desirable.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(3.) They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry, which is irresistibly and irrecoverably consumed by the flame. The judgments of God are as devouring fire to those that make themselves as stubble to them. It is again threatened concerning this great army (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The Hebrew is "soaked," or "drunken as with their own wine." Their drunken revelries are perhaps alluded to, during which the foe (according to DIODORUS SICULUS [2]) broke into their city, and Sardanapalus burned his palace; though the main and ultimate destruction of Nineveh referred to by Nahum was long subsequent to that under Sardanapalus.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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NAH 1:10MAL 4:1 ISA 47:14
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NAH 1:10MAL 4:1 2TH 1:8
NAH 1:10MAL 4:1 2PE 3:7
NAH 1:10MAL 4:1 MAL 3:2
NAH 1:10MIC 7:4 ISA 22:5
NAH 1:10MAL 4:1 ISA 5:24
NAH 1:10MIC 7:4 EZE 2:6
NAH 1:10MIC 7:4 ISA 10:3

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