Nahum 1:10 Parallel Translations

The people of Nineveh will be like tangled thorns and like people drunk on their own drink. They will be completely burned up like very dry straw.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

DBY:

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

ERV:

For though they be like tangled thorns, told be drenched as it were in their drink, they shall be devoured utterly as dry stubble.

JPS:

For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Nahum 1:10 Cross References

XREF:

2 Samuel 23:6 "But the worthless, every one of them will be thrust away like thorns, Because they cannot be taken in hand;

Isaiah 5:24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 10:17 And the light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame, And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.

Isaiah 56:12 "Come," they say, "let us get wine, and let us drink heavily of strong drink; And tomorrow will be like today, only more so."

Micah 7:4 The best of them is like a briar, The most upright like a thorn hedge. The day when you post your watchmen, Your punishment will come. Then their confusion will occur.

Nahum 3:11 You too will become drunk, You will be hidden. You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.

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 hosts, "so that it will leave them neither root nor branch." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

1:10 For while [they be] folden together [as] {l} thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
(l) Though the Assyrians think themselves like thorns that prick on all sides, yet the Lord will set fire on them, and as drunken men are not able to stand against any force, so they will not be able to resist him at all.

WES:

1:10 As thorns - They shall be like thorns easily burnt, and like thorns folded together which burn together, and help to destroy each other. As drunkards - As men drunken, and unable to help themselves, so the Assyrians drunk with pleasure and pride, shall be surprised, and easily overthrown.

MHC:

1:9-15 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 people. But those who make themselves vile by scandalous sins, God will make vile by shameful punishments. The tidings of this great deliverance shall be welcomed with abundant joy. These words are applied to the great redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus and the everlasting gospel, Ro 10:15. Christ's ministers are messengers of good tidings, that preach peace by Jesus Christ. How welcome to those who see their misery and danger by sin! And the promise they made in the day of trouble must be made good. Let us be thankful for God's ordinances, and gladly attend them. Let us look forward with cheerful hope to a world where the wicked never can enter, and sin and temptation will no more be known.

CONC:

Completely Consumed Destruction Devoured Drenched Dried Drink Drunk Drunkards Drunken Dry Entangled Folded Folden Fully Grass Overcome Perplexed Princes Stems Stubble Tangled Thorns Though Twisted Utterly Wine Withered

Completely Consumed Destruction Devoured Dried Drink Drunk Drunkards Drunken Dry Entangled Folded Fully Grass Overcome Perplexed Princes Stems Stubble Thorns Together Twisted Utterly Wine Withered

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