Nahum 3:11

⁹ Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.

¹⁰ Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

¹² All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!

¹³ Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.

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: You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.
KJV: Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
WEB: You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
ASV: Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
DARBY: Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy.
BLB: Even you will become drunk; you will be hidden; you will even seek refuge from the enemy.

ÅB: Også du skal bli drukken og sanseløs; også du skal søke et vern imot fienden.
OTB: Du også vil bli overvunnet,
Du vil bli skjult.
Du også vil søke ly fra fienden.
B1930: Også du skal bli drukken og sanseløs; også du skal søke et vern imot fienden.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Luke 23:30
At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
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Isaiah 49:26
I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
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Isaiah 2:10
Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.
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Nahum 1:10
For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
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Jeremiah 4:5
Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’
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Revelation 6:15–17
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
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Isaiah 2:19
Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
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Hosea 10:8
The high places of Aven will be destroyed— it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
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