Nahum 1:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

For while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully 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 of your watchmen and your visitation comes; now shall be their perplexity.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 For behold, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
  • Nah 3:11 : 11 You also shall be drunk: you shall be hidden, you also shall seek strength because of the enemy.
  • 1 Thess 5:2-3 : 2 For you know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
  • 1 Sam 25:36 : 36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light.
  • 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Watch now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon; then kill him, do not fear: have not I commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.
  • 2 Sam 23:6-7 : 6 But the sons of Belial shall all be as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: 7 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
  • Ps 68:2 : 2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 9:18 : 18 For wickedness burns like the fire; it will devour the briers and thorns and will kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they will mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
  • Isa 10:17-19 : 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
  • Isa 27:4 : 4 Fury is not in Me: who would set briers and thorns against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
  • Jer 51:39 : 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.
  • Jer 51:57 : 57 I will make her princes, wise men, captains, rulers, and mighty men drunk, and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

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