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they will be consumed like dry stubble.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/nahum/1.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />His enemies, tangled like thornbushes and staggering like drunks, will be burned up like dry stubble in a field.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/nahum/1.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/nahum/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/nahum/1.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />For while <i>they be</i> folden together <i>as</i> thorns, and while they are drunken <i>as</i> drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/nahum/1.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />For while tangled <i>like</i> thorns, And while drunken <i>like</i> drunkards, They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/nahum/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed Like stubble completely dried up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/nahum/1.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed As stubble completely withered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/nahum/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed As stubble completely withered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/nahum/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed As stubble fully dried up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/nahum/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Like tangled thorn branches [gathered for fuel], And like those drowned in drunkenness, The people of Nineveh are consumed [through fire] Like stubble completely withered <i>and</i> dry [in the day of the LORD’S wrath].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/nahum/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/nahum/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/nahum/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/nahum/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />They are like drunkards overcome by wine, or like twisted thornbushes burning in a fire. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/nahum/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />For though they be like tangled thorns, told be drenched as it were in their drink, they shall be devoured utterly as dry stubble.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/nahum/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />[The people of Nineveh will be] like tangled thorns and like people drunk on their own drink. They will be completely burned up like very dry straw.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/nahum/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Like tangled thorns and dry straw you drunkards will be burned up! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/nahum/1.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Indeed, while tangled as by a thorn bush, while drunken as by a strong drink, the Ninevites will be burned like dry straw.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/nahum/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard?like stubble that is fully dry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/nahum/1.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/nahum/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />For entangled like thorns, and drunk as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/nahum/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />For while they are folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/nahum/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/nahum/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />For while princes [are] perplexed, "" And with their drink are drunken, "" They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/nahum/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> For while princes are perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/nahum/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />For even to thorns surrounding them, and drinking to excess as drunkards, they shall be devoured as straw fully dried up.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/nahum/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/nahum/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />For just as thorns entwine one another, so also, while they are feasting and drinking together, they will be consumed like stubble that is completely dry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/nahum/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Like a thorny thicket, they are tangled, and like drunkards, they are drunk; like dry stubble, they are utterly consumed. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/nahum/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Like thorns they are entangled, like drunkards they are drunk; they are consumed like dry straw.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/nahum/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Because from the lowest among them up to their rulers they are rebellious, they stagger in their drunkenness; they have eaten and are filled with dry rubbish.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/nahum/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Because they are rebellious towards their Rulers and in their drunkenness they drink and they eat and they are filled with dried stubble<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/nahum/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />For though they be like tangled thorns, And be drunken according to their drink, They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/nahum/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />For <i>the enemy</i> shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/nahum/1-10.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1vC_xxtlDxA?start=93" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/nahum/1.htm">The Oracle of Nineveh</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">9</span>Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time. <span class="reftext">10</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">For</a> <a href="/hebrew/5440.htm" title="5440: sə·ḇu·ḵîm (V-Qal-QalPassPrtcpl-mp) -- To interweave. A primitive root; to entwine.">they will be entangled</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ- (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">as with</a> <a href="/hebrew/5518.htm" title="5518: sî·rîm (N-fp) -- Or ciyrah; or cirah; from a primitive root meaning to boil up; a pot; also a thorn; by implication, a hook.">thorns</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: ’uk·kə·lū (V-QalPass-Perf-3cp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">and consumed</a> <a href="/hebrew/5435.htm" title="5435: ū·ḵə·sā·ḇə·’ām (Conj-w, Prep-k:: N-msc:: 3mp) -- A drink, liquor. From caba'; potation, concretely, or abstractly.">like the drink</a> <a href="/hebrew/5433.htm" title="5433: sə·ḇū·’îm (V-Qal-QalPassPrtcpl-mp) -- To quaff to satiety, become tipsy. A primitive root; to quaff to satiety, i.e. Become tipsy.">of a drunkard—</a> <a href="/hebrew/7179.htm" title="7179: kə·qaš (Prep-k:: N-ms) -- Stubble, chaff. From qashash; straw.">like stubble</a> <a href="/hebrew/4392.htm" title="4392: mā·lê (Adj-ms) -- Full. From male'; full or filling; also fulness; adverbially, fully.">that is fully</a> <a href="/hebrew/3002.htm" title="3002: yā·ḇêš (Adj-ms) -- Dry, dried. From yabesh; dry.">dry.</a> </span><span class="reftext">11</span>From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/10-16.htm">Isaiah 10:16-19</a></span><br />Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame. / And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles. / The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18-19</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke. / By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/47-14.htm">Isaiah 47:14</a></span><br />Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/5-24.htm">Isaiah 5:24</a></span><br />Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels 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 despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-31.htm">Isaiah 1:31</a></span><br />The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/4-4.htm">Jeremiah 4:4</a></span><br />Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/21-12.htm">Jeremiah 21:12</a></span><br />O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/4-1.htm">Malachi 4:1</a></span><br />“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/37-20.htm">Psalm 37:20</a></span><br />But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/83-13.htm">Psalm 83:13-15</a></span><br />Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind. / As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze, / so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/18-16.htm">Job 18:16</a></span><br />The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/13-30.htm">Matthew 13:30</a></span><br />Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/13-40.htm">Matthew 13:40-42</a></span><br />As the weeds are collected and burned in the fire, so will it be at the end of the age. / The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness. / And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/3-12.htm">Matthew 3:12</a></span><br />His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/3-17.htm">Luke 3:17</a></span><br />His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">For while they be entwined together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.</p><p class="hdg">while they be.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_samuel/23-6.htm">2 Samuel 23:6,7</a></b></br> But <i>the sons</i> of Belial <i>shall be</i> all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/micah/7-4.htm">Micah 7:4</a></b></br> The best of them <i>is</i> as a brier: the most upright <i>is sharper</i> than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen <i>and</i> thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_thessalonians/5-2.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:2,3</a></b></br> For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night… </p><p class="hdg">drunken.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nahum/3-11.htm">Nahum 3:11</a></b></br> Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/25-36.htm">1 Samuel 25:36</a></b></br> And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart <i>was</i> merry within him, for he <i>was</i> very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_samuel/13-28.htm">2 Samuel 13:28</a></b></br> Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.</p><p class="hdg">they shall.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/68-2.htm">Psalm 68:2</a></b></br> As smoke is driven away, <i>so</i> drive <i>them</i> away: as wax melteth before the fire, <i>so</i> let the wicked perish at the presence of God.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18</a></b></br> For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up <i>like</i> the lifting up of smoke.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/10-17.htm">Isaiah 10:17-19</a></b></br> 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; … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/10-15.htm">Completely</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-18.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/micah/6-16.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/amos/7-4.htm">Devoured</a> <a href="/amos/7-4.htm">Dried</a> <a href="/micah/6-15.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-16.htm">Drunk</a> <a href="/joel/1-5.htm">Drunkards</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-19.htm">Drunken</a> <a href="/nahum/1-4.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-4.htm">Entangled</a> <a href="/hosea/4-19.htm">Folded</a> <a href="/joel/2-19.htm">Fully</a> <a href="/micah/5-7.htm">Grass</a> <a href="/jonah/2-7.htm">Overcome</a> <a href="/joel/1-18.htm">Perplexed</a> <a href="/micah/5-5.htm">Princes</a> <a href="/micah/4-12.htm">Stems</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-18.htm">Stubble</a> <a href="/micah/7-4.htm">Thorns</a> <a href="/micah/7-3.htm">Together</a> <a href="/micah/7-3.htm">Twisted</a> <a href="/micah/2-4.htm">Utterly</a> <a href="/micah/6-15.htm">Wine</a> <a href="/jonah/4-7.htm">Withered</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/nahum/3-1.htm">Completely</a> <a href="/nahum/3-13.htm">Consumed</a> <a href="/habakkuk/1-3.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/nahum/3-13.htm">Devoured</a> <a href="/zechariah/10-11.htm">Dried</a> <a href="/habakkuk/2-15.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/nahum/3-11.htm">Drunk</a> <a href="/matthew/24-49.htm">Drunkards</a> <a href="/nahum/3-11.htm">Drunken</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-14.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/galatians/5-1.htm">Entangled</a> <a href="/haggai/2-12.htm">Folded</a> <a href="/matthew/11-27.htm">Fully</a> <a href="/zechariah/10-1.htm">Grass</a> <a href="/nahum/3-11.htm">Overcome</a> <a href="/mark/6-20.htm">Perplexed</a> <a href="/habakkuk/1-10.htm">Princes</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-14.htm">Stems</a> <a href="/malachi/4-1.htm">Stubble</a> <a href="/matthew/7-16.htm">Thorns</a> <a href="/nahum/2-10.htm">Together</a> <a href="/nahum/2-10.htm">Twisted</a> <a href="/nahum/1-15.htm">Utterly</a> <a href="/nahum/3-11.htm">Wine</a> <a href="/zechariah/11-17.htm">Withered</a><div class="vheading2">Nahum 1</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/nahum/1-1.htm">The majesty of God in goodness to his people, and severity against his enemies.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/nahum/1.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/nahum/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/nahum/1.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>For they will be entangled as with thorns</b><br>This phrase suggests a situation of inescapable entrapment and confusion. Thorns in biblical literature often symbolize sin, difficulty, and divine judgment (<a href="/genesis/3-18.htm">Genesis 3:18</a>, <a href="/matthew/13-7.htm">Matthew 13:7</a>). The imagery of being entangled with thorns indicates the Assyrians' impending doom, as they are caught in their own wickedness and unable to escape God's judgment. Historically, the Assyrians were known for their cruelty and oppression, and this prophecy foretells their downfall as a result of their actions.<p><b>and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—</b><br>The comparison to a drunkard's drink implies a state of vulnerability and lack of control. In biblical times, drunkenness was often associated with moral and spiritual decay (<a href="/proverbs/23-29.htm">Proverbs 23:29-35</a>, <a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Isaiah 28:7</a>). This imagery suggests that the Assyrians will be overwhelmed and destroyed in a manner similar to how alcohol overtakes a drunkard, leading to their downfall. The consumption here indicates total destruction, as the Assyrians will be unable to resist the divine judgment that is coming upon them.<p><b>like stubble that is fully dry.</b><br>Stubble, the dry remains of harvested grain, is highly flammable and easily consumed by fire. This metaphor emphasizes the complete and swift destruction that awaits the Assyrians. In biblical context, stubble often represents something that is worthless and destined for destruction (<a href="/exodus/15-7.htm">Exodus 15:7</a>, <a href="/malachi/4.htm">Malachi 4:1</a>). The imagery of dry stubble highlights the inevitability and thoroughness of God's judgment. This phrase also connects to the broader biblical theme of divine retribution against those who oppose God's will, underscoring the certainty of the Assyrians' fate.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/n/nahum.htm">Nahum</a></b><br>A prophet who delivered God's message of judgment against Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, known for its cruelty and idolatry.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/n/nineveh.htm">Nineveh</a></b><br>The capital city of the Assyrian Empire, notorious for its wickedness and eventual destruction as prophesied by Nahum.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/a/assyrians.htm">Assyrians</a></b><br>The people of Nineveh, representing the enemies of Israel and symbolizing those who oppose God.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/thorns.htm">Thorns</a></b><br>Symbolic of entanglement and difficulty, representing the inescapable judgment that will ensnare the wicked.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/d/drunkard.htm">Drunkard</a></b><br>A metaphor for those who are oblivious to their impending doom, consumed by their own excesses and sins.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_inevitability_of_divine_judgment.htm">The Inevitability of Divine Judgment</a></b><br>Just as thorns entangle and stubble is easily consumed, God's judgment is certain and inescapable for those who oppose Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_dangers_of_spiritual_intoxication.htm">The Dangers of Spiritual Intoxication</a></b><br>Like a drunkard unaware of his peril, those who indulge in sin become oblivious to their spiritual danger.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_spiritual_sobriety.htm">The Call to Spiritual Sobriety</a></b><br>Believers are urged to remain vigilant and sober-minded, avoiding the entanglements of sin and the distractions of the world.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_over_nations.htm">God's Sovereignty Over Nations</a></b><br>The fall of Nineveh serves as a reminder that no nation or power is beyond God's control and judgment.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_for_the_righteous.htm">Hope for the Righteous</a></b><br>While the wicked face destruction, those who trust in the Lord can find refuge and deliverance.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_nahum_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Nahum 1</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/endure_hardship_like_christ's_soldier.htm">How can you endure hardship like a soldier of Christ?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_of_isaiah_47_14_prophecy.htm">Isaiah 47:14 - Where is the historical or scientific evidence of people burning up like stubble as a direct fulfillment of this prophecy?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_nahum_2_10_align_with_isaiah.htm">How does the portrayal of Nineveh's destruction in Nahum 2:10 align with earlier prophetic warnings against Assyria in books like Isaiah or Jonah?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_proverbs_say_on_laziness.htm">What does Proverbs say about lazy people?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/nahum/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(10) <span class= "bld">For while.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">For they shall be even as bundles of thorn fagots, and even while steeped in their drink they shall be burnt up like stubble fully dry.</span> Dry thorn cuttings were commonly used as fuel. (See <a href="/psalms/58-9.htm" title="Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.">Psalm 58:9</a>; <a href="/psalms/118-12.htm" title="They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.">Psalm 118:12</a>; <a href="/ecclesiastes/7-6.htm" title="For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.">Ecclesiastes 7:6</a>.) The verse compares the victims of Jehovah's wrath, first, to a compact bundle of thorn fagots; secondly, to a material equally combustible, the dry straw and stubble of the threshing-floor. With regard to the words "while steeped in their drink," it may be remarked that in the final siege of Nineveh a great defeat of its forces was effected by a surprise while the king and his captains were sunk in revelry (Diod. Sic. ii. 26). Benhadad, king of Syria, and Belshazzar, king of Babylon, were overcome under similar circumstances (<a href="/1_kings/1-16.htm" title="And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. And the king said, What would you?">1Kings 1:16</a>; <a href="/context/daniel/5-1.htm" title="Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.">Daniel 5:1-30</a>). Feasting and revelry may have gone on in Sennacherib's camp at the moment when the sudden visitation of the "angel of the Lord" was impending; but on this point we have no information. The introduction of this detail adds to the metaphor a certain grim humour. Soaked in wine though the enemy be, he shall surely burn like driest fuel in the day of Jehovah's fiery wrath. The opening clause of the verse is beset with difficulties, both grammatical and lexical. Kleinert renders "For in thorns they shall be entangled," &c.; Ewald and Hitzig, "For even though they be compact as a wickerwork of thorns," &c.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/nahum/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 10.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">While they be folden together as thorns.</span> The clause is conditional: "Though they be interwined as thorns." Though the Assyrians present an impenetrable front, which seems to defy attack. (For the comparison of a hostile army to briers and thorns, see <a href="/isaiah/10-17.htm">Isaiah 10:17</a>; <a href="/isaiah/27-4.htm">Isaiah 27:4</a>; Henderson.) <span class="cmt_word">And while they are drunken as drunkards</span>; <span class="accented">and though they be drunken with their drink</span>, regarding themselves as invincible, and drenched with wine, and given up to luxury and excess. There may be an allusion to the legend current concerning the destruction of Nineveh. Diodorus (2:26) relates that, after the enemy had been thrice repulsed, the King of Nineveh was so elated that he gave himself up to festivity, and allowed all his army to indulge in the utmost licence, and that it was while they were occupied in drunkenness and feasting they were surprised by the Medes under Cyaxares, and their city taken. An account of such a feast, accompanied with sketehes from the monuments, is given in Bonomi, 'Nineveh and its Discoveries,' p. 187, etc. We may compare the fate of Belshazzar (<a href="/daniel/5-1.htm">Daniel 5:1</a>, etc.). <span class="cmt_word">They shall be devoured as stubble fully dry;</span> like worthless refuse, fit only for burning (<a href="/exodus/15-7.htm">Exodus 15:7</a>; <a href="/isaiah/5-24.htm">Isaiah 5:24</a>; <a href="/joel/2-5.htm">Joel 2:5</a>; <a href="/obadiah/1-18.htm">Obadiah 1:18</a>). The LXX. renders this verse differently, "Because to its foundation it shall be dried up (<span class="greek">χερσωθήσεται</span>: <span class="accented">redigentur in vepres</span>, Jerome), and as bind weed (<span class="greek">σμῖλαξ</span>) intertwined it shall be devoured, and as stubble fully dry." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/nahum/1-10.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">For</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֚י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">they will be entangled</span><br /><span class="heb">סְבֻכִ֔ים</span> <span class="translit">(sə·ḇu·ḵîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5440.htm">Strong's 5440: </a> </span><span class="str2">To interweave</span><br /><br /><span class="word">as with</span><br /><span class="heb">עַד־</span> <span class="translit">(‘aḏ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> </span><span class="str2">As far as, even to, up to, until, while</span><br /><br /><span class="word">thorns</span><br /><span class="heb">סִירִ֣ים</span> <span class="translit">(sî·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5518.htm">Strong's 5518: </a> </span><span class="str2">A pot, a thorn, a hook</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and consumed</span><br /><span class="heb">אֻ֨כְּל֔וּ</span> <span class="translit">(’uk·kə·lū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - QalPass - Perfect - third person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">like the drink</span><br /><span class="heb">וּכְסָבְאָ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḵə·sā·ḇə·’ām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5435.htm">Strong's 5435: </a> </span><span class="str2">A drink, liquor</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of a drunkard—</span><br /><span class="heb">סְבוּאִ֑ים</span> <span class="translit">(sə·ḇū·’îm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5433.htm">Strong's 5433: </a> </span><span class="str2">To quaff to satiety, become tipsy</span><br /><br /><span class="word">like stubble</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּקַ֥שׁ</span> <span class="translit">(kə·qaš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7179.htm">Strong's 7179: </a> </span><span class="str2">Stubble, chaff</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that is fully</span><br /><span class="heb">מָלֵֽא׃</span> <span class="translit">(mā·lê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4390.htm">Strong's 4390: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fill, be full of</span><br /><br /><span class="word">dry.</span><br /><span class="heb">יָבֵ֖שׁ</span> <span class="translit">(yā·ḇêš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3002.htm">Strong's 3002: </a> </span><span class="str2">Dry, dried</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/nahum/1-10.htm">Nahum 1:10 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/nahum/1-10.htm">Nahum 1:10 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/nahum/1-10.htm">Nahum 1:10 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/nahum/1-10.htm">Nahum 1:10 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/nahum/1-10.htm">Nahum 1:10 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/nahum/1-10.htm">Nahum 1:10 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/nahum/1-10.htm">Nahum 1:10 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/nahum/1-10.htm">Nahum 1:10 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/nahum/1-10.htm">Nahum 1:10 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/nahum/1-10.htm">Nahum 1:10 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/nahum/1-10.htm">OT Prophets: Nahum 1:10 For entangled like thorns and drunken as (Nah. 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