10 For while tangled (A)like thorns,
(B)And while drunken like drunkards,
(C)They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.

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10 They will be entangled among thorns(A)
    and drunk(B) from their wine;
    they will be consumed like dry stubble.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:10 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.

The best of them is (A)like a brier;
The most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge;
The day of your watchman and your punishment comes;
Now shall be their perplexity.

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The best of them is like a brier,(A)
    the most upright worse than a thorn(B) hedge.
The day God visits you has come,
    the day your watchmen sound the alarm.
    Now is the time of your confusion.(C)

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The Great Day of God

“For behold, (A)the day is coming,
Burning like an oven,
And all (B)the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be (C)stubble.
And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“That will (D)leave them neither root nor branch.

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Judgment and Covenant Renewal

[a]“Surely the day is coming;(A) it will burn like a furnace.(B) All the arrogant(C) and every evildoer will be stubble,(D) and the day that is coming will set them on fire,(E)” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch(F) will be left to them.

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  1. Malachi 4:1 In Hebrew texts 4:1-6 is numbered 3:19-24.

11 You also will be (A)drunk;
You will be hidden;
You also will seek refuge from the enemy.

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11 You too will become drunk;(A)
    you will go into hiding(B)
    and seek refuge from the enemy.

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18 For wickedness (A)burns as the fire;
It shall devour the briers and thorns,
And kindle in the thickets of the forest;
They shall mount up like rising smoke.

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18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire;(A)
    it consumes briers and thorns,(B)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,(C)
    so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

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24 Therefore, (A)as the [a]fire devours the stubble,
And the flame consumes the chaff,
So (B)their root will be as rottenness,
And their blossom will ascend like dust;
Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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  1. Isaiah 5:24 Lit. tongue of fire

24 Therefore, as tongues of fire(A) lick up straw(B)
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,
so their roots will decay(C)
    and their flowers blow away like dust;(D)
for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty
    and spurned the word(E) of the Holy One(F) of Israel.

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But the sons of rebellion shall all be as thorns thrust away,
Because they cannot be taken with hands.
But the man who touches them
Must be [a]armed with iron and the shaft of a spear,
And they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.”

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  1. 2 Samuel 23:7 Lit. filled

But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns,(A)
    which are not gathered with the hand.
Whoever touches thorns
    uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear;
    they are burned up where they lie.”

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For you yourselves know perfectly that (A)the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then (B)sudden destruction comes upon them, (C)as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.

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for you know very well that the day of the Lord(A) will come like a thief in the night.(B) While people are saying, “Peace and safety,”(C) destruction will come on them suddenly,(D) as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.(E)

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57 “And I will make drunk
Her princes and (A)wise men,
Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men.
And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says (B)the King,
Whose name is the Lord of hosts.

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57 I will make her officials(A) and wise(B) men drunk,(C)
    her governors, officers and warriors as well;
they will sleep(D) forever and not awake,”
    declares the King,(E) whose name is the Lord Almighty.

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39 In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;
(A)I will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the Lord.

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39 But while they are aroused,
    I will set out a feast for them
    and make them drunk,(A)
so that they shout with laughter—
    then sleep forever(B) and not awake,”
declares the Lord.(C)

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Fury is not in Me.
Who would set (A)briers and thorns
Against Me in battle?
I would go through them,
I would burn them together.

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    I am not angry.
If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!
    I would march against them in battle;
    I would set them all on fire.(A)

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17 So the Light of Israel will be for a fire,
And his Holy One for a flame;
(A)It will burn and devour
His thorns and his briers in one day.
18 And it will consume the glory of his forest and of (B)his fruitful field,
Both soul and body;
And they will be as when a sick man wastes away.
19 Then the rest of the trees of his forest
Will be so few in number
That a child may write them.

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17 The Light of Israel will become a fire,(A)
    their Holy One(B) a flame;
in a single day it will burn and consume
    his thorns(C) and his briers.(D)
18 The splendor of his forests(E) and fertile fields
    it will completely destroy,(F)
    as when a sick person wastes away.
19 And the remaining trees of his forests(G) will be so few(H)
    that a child could write them down.

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(A)As smoke is driven away,
So drive them away;
(B)As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

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May you blow them away like smoke—(A)
    as wax melts(B) before the fire,
    may the wicked perish(C) before God.

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