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Nahum 1:10

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Nahum 1:10 · King James Version

In other versions

  • For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

    ASV

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

    BBE

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

    DBY

  • For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

    WEB

  • For while princes `are' perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

    YLT

  • For while they be folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

    ENG

  • For while they are folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

    WBT

  • For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

    BSB

In context

8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

9What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

11There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.

12Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

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