Catholic Public Domain Version
"For just as thorns entwine one another, so also, while they are feasting and drinking together, they will be consumed like stubble that is completely dry. "
— Nahum 1:10, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.”
“For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble. ”
“For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.”
“Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.”
“For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.”
“For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.”
“For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.”
The Lord is good, and a comforter in the day of tribulation, and he knows those who hope in him.
And in the flood that passes over, he brings to consummation the end of his place. And darkness shall pursue his adversaries.
What are you thinking up against the Lord? He will accomplish the consummation. There shall not rise up a double tribulation.
For just as thorns entwine one another, so also, while they are feasting and drinking together, they will be consumed like stubble that is completely dry.
Out of you will go forth one who thinks up evil against the Lord, dragging betrayals through his mind.
Thus says the Lord: If they had been perfect, and many of them so, yet still they would be pruned, and it will cross through them. I have afflicted you, and I shall afflict you no more.
And now I will shatter his rod from your back, and I will break open your bonds.