Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
like entangled thorns,
like the drink of a drunkard
and like straw that is fully dry.
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.
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.
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
He will bring it to complete destruction;
oppression will not rise up a second time.
like entangled thorns,
like the drink of a drunkard
and like straw that is fully dry.
who plots evil against Yahweh,
and is a wicked counselor.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Micah 7:4
the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns.
The day of your watchmen,
the day of your punishment, is coming;
at this time their panic is here.
Malachi 4:1
Nahum 3:11
you will hide yourself.
You also will seek refuge from the enemy.
1 Samuel 25:36
Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king.
2 Samuel 13:28
Now Absalom commanded his young men, “Watch Amnon until he is in a good mood from the wine. When I order you to strike Amnon, then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Am I not the one who has commanded you? Be strong and courageous!”
2 Samuel 23:6-7
they can never be picked up by hand.
Psalm 68:2
so You blow them away.
As wax melts before the fire,
so the wicked are destroyed before God.
Isaiah 5:24
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected
the instruction of the Lord of Hosts,
and they have despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 9:18
that consumes thorns and briers
and kindles the forest thickets
so that they go up in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 10:17-19
and its Holy One, a flame.
In one day it will burn up Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
Isaiah 27:4
but if it produces thorns and briers
I will fight against it, trample it,
and burn it to the ground.
Jeremiah 51:39
and I will make them drunk so that they revel.
Then they will fall asleep forever
and never wake up.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jeremiah 51:57
along with her governors, officials, and warriors.
Then they will fall asleep forever
and never wake up.
This is the King’s declaration;
Yahweh of Hosts is His name.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord