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Nahum 1:10 KJV
Nahum · chapter 1 · verse 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
Nahum 1:10 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- drunkardsçôbeʼpotation, concretely , or abstractlyH5435 →
- togetherçâbakto entwineH5440 →
- devouredʼâkalto eatH398 →
- drunkençâbâʼto quaff to satietyH5433 →
- stubbleqashstrawH7179 →
- thornsçîyra potH5518 →
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These verses seem to point at the destruction of the army of the Assyrians under Sennacherib, which may well be reckoned a part of the burden of Nineveh, the head city of the Assyrian empire, and a pledge of the destruction of Nineveh itself about 100 years after;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-15