Bible verse
For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
Nahum 1:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from Nahum 1.
6 Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
7 The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.
8 But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.
9 Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
10 For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
11 From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.
12 This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.
13 For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.”
14 The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
KJV
For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
ASV
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
ERV
For though they be like tangled thorns, told be drenched as it were in their drink, they shall be devoured utterly as dry stubble.
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