Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

Like tangled thorns,
And like those who are drunken with their drink,
They are consumed
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

For they will be consumed
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,
The people of Nineveh are consumed [through fire]
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.

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.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
סבך 
Cabak 
Usage: 2

as thorns
סרה סירה סיר 
Ciyr 
Usage: 34

סבא 
Caba' 
Usage: 5

סבא 
Cobe' 
Usage: 3

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

as stubble
קשׁ 
Qash 
Usage: 16

מלא 
Male' 
Usage: 63

References

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Destruction Of Nineveh

9 What do you imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For while they are entangled together as thorns, and while they are drunk as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 11 There has one come out of you, that imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.



Cross References

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen and your punishment comes; now shall be their perplexity.

Malachi 4:1

For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Nahum 3:11

You also shall be drunk: you shall be hidden, you also shall seek refuge from 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, little or much, until the morning light.

2 Samuel 13:28

Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Strike Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.

2 Samuel 23:6-7

But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

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 fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, 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 hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the rising of smoke.

Isaiah 10:17-19

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

Isaiah 27:4

Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

Jeremiah 51:39

In their excitement I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:57

And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

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