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A Conservative Version
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
New American Standard Bible
And like those who are
They are
As stubble completely withered.
King James Version
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Holman Bible
like entangled thorns,
like the drink of a drunkard
and like straw that is fully dry.
International Standard Version
Indeed, while tangled as by a thorn bush, while drunken as by a strong drink, the Ninevites will be burned like dry straw.
American Standard Version
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
Amplified
Like tangled thorn branches [gathered for fuel],
And like those drowned in drunkenness,
Like stubble completely withered and dry [in the day of the Lord’s wrath].
Bible in Basic English
For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.
Darby Translation
Though they be tangled together as thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.
Julia Smith Translation
For even to thorns surrounding them, and drinking to excess as drunkards, they shall be devoured as straw fully dried up.
King James 2000
For while they are entangled together as thorns, and while they are drunk as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For like entangled thorns, and like their drink which is drunk, they will be consumed like fully dry chaff.
Modern King James verseion
For as thorns are woven together, and as their drunkards are drunken, they shall be devoured like stubble fully dry.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For like as the thorns that stick together, and as the dry straw, so shall the drunkards be consumed together, even when they be full.
NET Bible
Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
New Heart English Bible
For entangled like thorns, and drunk as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
The Emphasized Bible
Though they were like thorns intertwined, and as drunkards drenched with their drink, yet have they been devoured, like stubble fully dry.
Webster
For while they are folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
World English Bible
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
Youngs Literal Translation
For while princes are perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.
Themes
Drunkards » Drunkards, general references to
Intemperance » Examples of » Drunkards, general references to
Intoxication » Examples of » Drunkards, general references to
Nineveh » Predictions respecting » Being taken while people were drunk
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 1:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Destruction Of Nineveh
9 What do ye devise against LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble. 11 He has gone forth out of thee, who devises evil against LORD, who counsels wickedness.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Micah 7:4
The best of them is as a brier. The most upright is [worse] than a thorn hedge. The day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, has come. Now shall be their perplexity.
Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace, and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, shall be stubble. And the day that comes shall burn them up, says LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Nahum 3:11
Thou also shall be drunken. Thou shall be hid. Thou also shall seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
2 Samuel 13:28
And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Notice ye now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Smite Amnon, then kill him. Fear not; have I not commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant.
2 Samuel 23:6-7
But the worthless shall be as thorns to be thrust away, all of them, because they cannot be taken with the hand.
Psalm 68:2
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore 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 LORD of hosts, an
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns as the fire. It devours the briers and thorns. Yea, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 10:17-19
And the 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.
Isaiah 27:4
Wrath is not in me. Would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them. I would burn them together.
Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will make their feast. And I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says LORD.
Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make drunk her rulers and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is LORD of hosts.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of Lord so comes as a thief in the night.