Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For even to thorns surrounding them, and drinking to excess as drunkards, they shall be devoured as straw fully dried up.
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.
A Conservative Version
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
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.
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 will ye purpose against Jehovah? he made a completion: straits shall not rise up twice. 10 For even to thorns surrounding them, and drinking to excess as drunkards, they shall be devoured as straw fully dried up. 11 From thee shall he come forth purposing evil against Jehovah, a counselor of Belial.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Micah 7:4
Their good as the thorn, the upright more than the thorn-hedge: the day of thy watchings and thy reviewings came; now shall be their perplexity.
Malachi 4:1
For behold, the day coming, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all doing injustice were straw: and the day coming burnt them, said Jehovah of armies, that it shall not leave to them root and branch.
Nahum 3:11
And thou shalt be intoxicated, and thou shalt be hid; thou shalt seek a fortifiedplace from the enemy.
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail will go to Nabal; and behold, to him a drinking in his house as the drinking of a king; and Nabal's heart good with him, and he was intoxicated even greatly; and she announced not to him a word small and great till the light of the morning.
2 Samuel 13:28
And Absalom will command his boys, saying, See now, when the heart of Amnon is good with wine, and I said to you, Strike Amnon; and kill him; ye shall not be afraid, for I commanded you: be strong and be for sons of strength.
2 Samuel 23:6-7
And Belial as the thorn thrusting out are all they, for they will not be taken by the hand.
Psalm 68:2
As smoke being dispersed thou wilt disperse: as wax melting from the face of fire, the unjust shall perish from the face of God.
Isaiah 5:24
For this as the tongue of fire consumes the straw, and the dry grass of flame will collapse: their root shall be as rottenness, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of Jehovah of armies, and the saying of the Holy One of Israel they despised.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burnt as fire; the sharp point and the thorn it shall consume, and shall burn in the thickets of the forest, and they shall roll up in the mounting up of smoke.
Isaiah 10:17-19
And the light of Israel was for a fire, and his Holy for a flame: and he burnt and consumed his thorns, and his sharp points in one day:
Isaiah 27:4
Wrath not to me: who shall distribute to me the sharp point of the thorn in battle? I will rush upon her; I will set her on fire together.
Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I will set their drinkings, and I made them drunken so that they shall exult, and sleep an eternal sleep, and they shall not rouse up, says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 51:57
And I made drunk her chiefs and her wise, her prefects and her rulers, and her strong ones: and they shall sleep an eternal sleep, and they shall not rise up, says the King, Jehovah of armies his name.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes.