Nahum 1:10

Nahum 1:10 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

10They will be entangled among thorns

and drunk from their wine;

they will be consumed like dry stubble.1:10 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.

10Like tangled thorns,

And like those who are drunken with their drink,

They are consumed

Like stubble completely dried up.

10Like tangled thorns,

And like those who are drunken with their drink,

They are consumed

As stubble completely withered.

10Like tangled thorn branches [gathered for fuel],

And like those drowned in drunkenness,

1:10 Lit They.The people of Nineveh are consumed [through fire]

Like stubble completely withered and dry [in the day of the Lord’s wrath]. [Mal 4:1]

10For they will be entangled as with thorns

and consumed like the drink of a drunkard —

like stubble that is fully dry.

10His enemies will be tangled up among thorns.

Their wine will make them drunk.

They’ll be burned up like dry straw.