Nahum 1:10

“For while they be folden together as thornes, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be deuoured as stubble fully drie.”

1611 King James Version (KJV)




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Other Translations

For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
- King James Version

Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed As stubble completely withered.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
- American Standard Version (1901)

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.
- Basic English Bible

Though they be tangled together [as] thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.
- Darby Bible

For while they are folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
- Webster's Bible

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
- World English Bible

For while princes [are] perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.
- Youngs Literal Bible

For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Bible commentary

Wesley's Notes for Nahum 1:10


1:10 As thorns - They shall be like thorns easily burnt, and like thorns folded together which burn together, and help to destroy each other. As drunkards - As men drunken, and unable to help themselves, so the Assyrians drunk with pleasure and pride, shall be surprised, and easily overthrown.


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