Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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 imagine ye against the LORD? He makes an utter end: ye shall not be troubled twice. 10 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. 11 There come out of thee such as Imagine mischief, and give ungracious counsel against the LORD.



Cross References

Micah 7:4

The best of them is but as a thistle, and the most righteous of them is but as a brier in the hedge. But when the day of thy preachers cometh, that thou shalt be visited: then shall they be wasted away.

Malachi 4:1

For mark, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven: and all the proud, yea and all such as do wickedness, shall be straw: and the day that is for to come, shall burn them up, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Nahum 3:11

Even so shalt thou also be drunken, and hide thyself, and seek some help against thine enemy.

1 Samuel 25:36

And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, and he was drunk a good. Wherefore she told him nought, neither little nor more, until the morrow day.

2 Samuel 13:28

Then Absalom commanded his young men, saying, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I bid you smite Amnon, then kill him. Fear not, for it is I that bid you. Be bold therefore and play the lusty bloods."

2 Samuel 23:6-7

when the unthrifty men are all of them as thorns taken out of their places, which cannot be taken with hands.

Psalm 68:2

Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away; and like as wax melteth at the fire, so shall the ungodly perish at the presence of God.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore like as fire licketh up the straw, and as the flame consumeth the stubble: Even so - when their root is full - their blossom shall vanish away like dust or smoke. For they have cast away the law of the LORD of Hosts, and blaspheme the word of the holy maker of Israel.

Isaiah 9:18

For the ungodly burn, as a fire in the briers and thorns: And as it were out of a fire in a wood or a red bush, so ascendeth the smoke of their pride.

Isaiah 10:17-19

But the light of Israel shall be that fire, and his Sanctuary shall be the flame, and it shall kindle, and burn up his thorns and briers in one day.

Isaiah 27:4

I hear no evil will in my mind. Who will compel me that I, greatly forgetting all faithfulness, should burn it up at once with thorns and bushes?

Jeremiah 51:39

In their heat I shall set drink before them, and they shall be drunken for joy: Then shall they sleep an everlasting sleep, and never wake, sayeth the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:57

Yea, sayeth the LORD, I will make their princes, their wise men, their chief rulers and all their worthies, drunken: so that they shall sleep an everlasting sleep and never wake. Thus sayeth the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

for ye your selves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall come even as a thief in the night.

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