Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For while princes are perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.
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.
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.
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 we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress. 10 For while princes are perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried. 11 From thee hath come forth a deviser of evil Against Jehovah -- a worthless counsellor.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Micah 7:4
Their best one is as a brier, The upright one -- than a thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen -- Thy visitation -- hath come. Now is their perplexity.
Malachi 4:1
For, lo, the day hath come, burning as a furnace, And all the proud, and every wicked doer, have been stubble, And burnt them hath the day that came, Said Jehovah of Hosts, That there is not left to them root or branch,
Nahum 3:11
Even thou art drunken, thou art hidden, Even thou dost seek a strong place, because of an enemy.
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal is glad within him, and he is drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.
2 Samuel 13:28
And Absalom commandeth his young men, saying, 'See, I pray thee, when the heart of Amnon is glad with wine, and I have said unto you, Smite Amnon, that ye have put him to death; fear not; is it not because I have commanded you? be strong, yea, become sons of valour.'
2 Samuel 23:6-7
As to the worthless -- As a thorn driven away are all of them, For -- not by hand are they taken;
Psalm 68:2
As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.
Isaiah 9:18
For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!
Isaiah 10:17-19
And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame, And it hath burned, and devoured his thorn And his brier in one day.
Isaiah 27:4
Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier -- a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.
Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not -- an affirmation of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 51:57
And I have caused its princes to drink, And its wise men, its governors, And its prefects, and its mighty ones, And they have slept a sleep age-during, And they awake not -- an affirmation of the king, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,