Nahum 1:10

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

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

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

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

¹² Thus 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.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
KJV: For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
WEB: For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
ASV: For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
DARBY: Though they be tangled together [as] thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.
BLB: For as with thorns, they will be entangled, and like their drink becoming drunk, they are consumed like stubble fully dry.

ÅB: For er de enn så sammenflettet som torner og så fulle som deres fullskap kan gjøre dem, så blir de like fullt aldeles fortært som tørr halm.
OTB: De vil bli fanget i en floke av torner
og overvunnet av sin drikk;
de vil bli fortært
som tørt halm.
B1930: For er de enn så sammenflettet som torner og så fulle som deres fullskap kan gjøre dem, så blir de like fullt aldeles fortært som tørr halm.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Micah 7:4
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Read in context
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth 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.
Read in context
Nahum 3:11
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
Read in context
Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Read in context
Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Read in context
Isaiah 9:18
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 like the lifting up of smoke.
Read in context
2 Samuel 23:6–7
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
Read in context
Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Read in context