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.
Context
This verse from Nahum Chapter 1 connects to 10 cross-references. A poem celebrating the Lord as a jealous and avenging God who is slow to anger but who will by no means clear the guilty. The theophanic imagery of withering sea, trembling mountains, and dissolving hills precedes the declaration that …
Other Translations
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
For while princes <FI>are<Fi> perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.
For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.
Cross References
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; …
Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I …
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with …
But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they …
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish …
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, …
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of …
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall …
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through …