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Nahum 1:10

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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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10 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּ֚יkiforH3588 →
עַד־'ad-toH5704 →
סִירִ֣יםsi.RimthornsH5518 →
סְבֻכִ֔יםse.vu.KhiminterwovenH5440 →
וּכְסָבְאָ֖םu.khe.sa.ve.'Amand like drink theirH5435 →
סְבוּאִ֑יםse.vu.'ImdrunkardsH5433 →
אֻ֨כְּל֔וּ'u.ke.Luthey will be consumedH398 →
כְּקַ֥שׁke.Kashlike stubbleH7179 →
יָבֵ֖שׁya.VeshdryH3002 →
מָלֵֽא׃ma.Le'fullH4392 →

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Micah 7:4The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.Nahum 3:11You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”1 Thessalonians 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.Isaiah 47:14Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.Jeremiah 51:57I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.2 Samuel 23:6–7But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’Isaiah 27:4I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.Jeremiah 51:39While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.Psalms 68:2As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.Isaiah 10:17–19And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.1 Thessalonians 5:2–3For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.Isaiah 10:17And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.Psalms 10:6He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

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