Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

New American Standard Bible

You too will become drunk,
You will be hidden.
You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.

King James Version

Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

Holman Bible

You also will become drunk;
you will hide yourself.
You also will seek refuge from the enemy.

International Standard Version

You will also become drunk. You will disappear, trying to hide from your enemies.

A Conservative Version

Thou also shall be drunken. Thou shall be hid. Thou also shall seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

American Standard Version

Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Amplified


You too [Nineveh] will become drunk [with the cup of God’s wrath];
You will be hidden.
You too [Nineveh] will search [in vain] for a refuge from the enemy.

Bible in Basic English

And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.

Darby Translation

Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy.

Julia Smith Translation

And thou shalt be intoxicated, and thou shalt be hid; thou shalt seek a fortifiedplace from the enemy.

King James 2000

You also shall be drunk: you shall be hidden, you also shall seek refuge from the enemy.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You also will behave like a drunkard; You also will hide yourself; You also will seek refuge from [the] enemy.

Modern King James verseion

You also shall be drunken; you shall be hidden, you also shall seek strength because of the enemy.

NET Bible

You too will act like drunkards; you will go into hiding; you too will seek refuge from the enemy.

New Heart English Bible

You also will be drunk. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou too, shalt be drunken, thou shalt hide thyself, - thou too, shalt seek shelter from the foe:

Webster

Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

World English Bible

You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Youngs Literal Translation

Even thou art drunken, thou art hidden, Even thou dost seek a strong place, because of an enemy.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁכר 
Shakar 
Usage: 19

thou shalt be hid
עלם 
`alam 
Usage: 28

מעז מעז מעוּז מעוז 
Ma`owz 
Usage: 36

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Nineveh Will Suffer The Same Fate She Inflicted On Thebes

10 yet was she driven away, and brought into captivity: her young children were smitten down at the head of every street, the lots were cast for the most ancient men in her, and all her mighty men were bound in chains. 11 Even so shalt thou also be drunken, and hide thyself, and seek some help against thine enemy. 12 All thy strong cities shall be like fig trees with ripe figs: which when a man shaketh, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

Cross References

Isaiah 2:10

And therefore get thee soon into some rock, and hide thee in the ground for the fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty:

Isaiah 49:26

And will feed thine enemies with their own flesh, and make them drink of their own blood, as of sweet wine. And all flesh shall know, O Jacob, that I am the LORD - thy Saviour and strong avenger.

Psalm 75:8

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full mixed, and he poureth out of the same. As for the dregs thereof, all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them, and suck them out.

Isaiah 2:19

Men shall creep into holes of stone, and into caves of the earth, for the fear of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty: what time as he shall arise to shake the earth.

Jeremiah 4:5

Preach in Judah and Jerusalem, cry out and speak, "Blow the trumpets in the land, cry that every man may hear, and say, 'Gather you together, and we will go into strong cities.

Hosea 10:8

The high places of Aven, where Israel do sin, shall be cast down: thistles and thorns shall grow upon their altars. Then shall they say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall upon us."

Nahum 1:10

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.

1 Samuel 13:6

And when the men of Israel saw themselves in a strait, and that the people were encumbered, they hid themselves in caves, in privy holes, in rocks, dens and pits.

1 Samuel 14:11

And when they had both showed themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines, the Philistines said, "See, the Hebrews come out of the holes where they had hid themselves in."

Isaiah 29:9

Ponder these things once in your mind, and wonder: Blinded are they themselves, and the blind guides of others; they are drunken, but not with wine; they are unstable, but not through strong drink.

Isaiah 63:6

and thus have I trodden down the people in my wrath, and bathed them in my displeasure: Insomuch that I have shed their blood upon the earth."

Jeremiah 8:14

Why prolong we the time? Let us gather ourselves together, and go into the strong city; there shall we be in rest. For the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water mixed with gall to drink: because we have sinned against him.

Jeremiah 25:15-27

"For thus hath the LORD God of Israel spoken unto me, 'Take this wine cup of indignation from my hand, that thou mayest cause all the people, to whom I send thee, for to drink of it:

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.

Amos 9:3

Though they hide themselves upon the top of Carmel, yet shall I seek them out, and bring them from thence. Though they creep down from my sight into the deep of the sea, I shall command the serpent, even there to bite them.

Micah 7:17

They shall lick the dust like a serpent, as the worms of the earth, that tremble in their holes. They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and they shall fear thee.

Nahum 2:1

The scatterer shall come up against thee, and lay siege to the castle. Look thou well to the streets, make thy loins strong, arm thyself with all thy might:

Luke 23:30

Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us'; and to the hills, 'Cover us.'

Revelation 6:15-17

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in dens, and in rocks of the hills,

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