Nahum 1:10

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Though they are entangled in thorns and drunk from their wine, they will be consumed like dry stubble.

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  • Mic 7:4 : 4 The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge. The day your watchmen foretold has come, the day of your visitation. Now confusion is upon them.
  • Nah 3:11 : 11 You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding. You too will seek refuge from the enemy.
  • 1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, "Peace and safety," sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
  • 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk, so she told him nothing at all until daybreak.
  • 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Absalom ordered his servants, saying, 'Watch when Amnon’s heart is cheerful from drinking wine, and when I say to you, "Strike Amnon down," then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I ordered you? Be strong and courageous.’
  • 2 Sam 23:6-7 : 6 But wicked people are like thorns cast aside, for they cannot be gathered with the hand. 7 Anyone who touches them must arm himself with iron or the shaft of a spear, and they are burned up completely where they lie.
  • Ps 68:2 : 2 Let God arise; let His enemies be scattered, and let those who hate Him flee from His presence.
  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble and as dry grass sinks in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 9:18 : 18 By the wrath of the LORD Almighty, the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares his brother.
  • Isa 10:17-19 : 17 The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; it will burn and devour his thorns and briars in a single day. 18 The glory of his forest and his fruitful fields will be consumed, both soul and body. It will be as when a sick man wastes away. 19 The remaining trees of his forest will be so few that a child could count them.
  • Isa 27:4 : 4 I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me, I would march against them in battle and completely burn them together.
  • Jer 51:39 : 39 While they are heated up, I will prepare their feast and make them drunk, so they will revel and then sleep a perpetual sleep, never to wake up, declares the Lord.
  • Jer 51:57 : 57 I will make her officials, wise men, governors, commanders, and warriors drunk, and they will sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of Hosts.

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    18By the wrath of the LORD Almighty, the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares his brother.

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    9Whatever you plot against the Lord, he will bring it to an end; trouble will not come a second time.

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    11You conceive chaff, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will devour you.

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  • Job 21:18
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    18They are like straw before the wind and like chaff carried away by a storm.

  • Isa 1:28-31
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    28But rebels and sinners will be destroyed together, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.

    29You will be ashamed because of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush because of the gardens you have chosen.

    30For you will be like a terebinth whose leaves wither, and like a garden without water.

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  • Isa 47:14
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    14Behold, they are like stubble; fire consumes them. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coal for warming oneself, nor fire to sit before.

  • Ps 37:2
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    2For they will soon wither like grass and fade like green plants.

  • Ps 58:9
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  • Joel 1:5
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    17The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

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    11From you, Nineveh, has come one who plots evil against the Lord and devises wicked plans.

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    7A senseless person does not know, and a fool does not understand this:

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, the branches will be cut with pruning knives, and the spreading branches will be removed and discarded.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

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    17The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; it will burn and devour his thorns and briars in a single day.

    18The glory of his forest and his fruitful fields will be consumed, both soul and body. It will be as when a sick man wastes away.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses a desolation. They will build houses but not live in them, and they will plant vineyards but not drink their wine.

  • Job 22:20
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    20Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire has consumed their wealth.

  • Hos 13:3
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  • Prov 26:9
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    9Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

  • Ps 73:19
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    19How suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!

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    12They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the Lord, I cut them off.

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    15There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.

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