Nahum 1:10

WEB

¹⁰For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

KJV

¹⁰For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

BSB

¹⁰For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

FBV

¹⁰They^[+] themselves like people caught in thorn bushes; they are like drunks full of drink. They will be completely burned up like dry straw.

Extra References

Micah 7:4

⁴The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

²⁴Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of the LORD of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Nahum 3:11

¹¹You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Malachi 4:1

¹“For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up,” says the LORD of Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

2 Samuel 23:6-7

⁶But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand. ⁷The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”

Jeremiah 51:57

⁵⁷I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies.

Isaiah 9:18

¹⁸For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Jeremiah 51:39

³⁹When they are inflamed, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the LORD.

Isaiah 10:17-19

¹⁷The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. ¹⁸He will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints. ¹⁹The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

²For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. ³For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.