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Nahum 1:10
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Nahum 1:10
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10 For they are (A)like entangled thorns,
like drunkards as they drink;
(B)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
Nahum 1:10
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Nahum 1:10
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Micah 7:4
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Micah 7:4
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4 The best of them is (A)like a brier,
the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of (B)your watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
(C)now their confusion is at hand.
Micah 7:4
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Micah 7:4
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Malachi 4:1
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Malachi 4:1
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The Great Day of the Lord
4 [a] “For behold, (A)the day is coming, (B)burning like an oven, when (C)all the arrogant and (D)all evildoers (E)will be stubble. The day that is coming (F)shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
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- Malachi 4:1 Ch 4:1–6 is ch 3:19–24 in Hebrew
Malachi 4:1
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Malachi 4:1
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Judgment and Covenant Renewal
4 [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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- Malachi 4:1 In Hebrew texts 4:1-6 is numbered 3:19-24.
Nahum 3:11
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Nahum 3:11
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Nahum 3:11
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Nahum 3:11
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Isaiah 9:18
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Isaiah 9:18
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18 For wickedness burns like (A)a fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 9:18
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Isaiah 9:18
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Isaiah 5:24
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Isaiah 5:24
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24 Therefore, (A)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so (B)their root will be (C)as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have (D)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
and have (E)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 5:24
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Isaiah 5:24
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Jeremiah 51:57
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Jeremiah 51:57
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57 (A)I will make drunk her officials and her wise men,
(B)her governors, her commanders, and her warriors;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake,
declares (C)the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
2 Samuel 23:6-7
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2 Samuel 23:6-7
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6 But worthless men[a] are all like thorns that are thrown away,
for they cannot be taken with the hand;
7 but the man who touches them
arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear,
and they are utterly consumed with fire.”[b]
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- 2 Samuel 23:6 Hebrew worthlessness
- 2 Samuel 23:7 Hebrew consumed with fire in the sitting
2 Samuel 23:6-7
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2 Samuel 23:6-7
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6 But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns,(A)
which are not gathered with the hand.
7 Whoever touches thorns
uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear;
they are burned up where they lie.”
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
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1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
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2 For you yourselves are fully aware that (A)the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then (B)sudden destruction will come upon them (C)as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
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1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
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Jeremiah 51:39
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Jeremiah 51:39
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39 (A)While they are inflamed (B)I will prepare them a feast
and (C)make them drunk, that they may become merry,
(D)then sleep a perpetual sleep
and not wake, declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:39
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Jeremiah 51:39
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Isaiah 27:4
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Isaiah 27:4
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4 I have no wrath.
(A)Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
I would march against them,
I would burn them up together.
Isaiah 27:4
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Isaiah 27:4
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4 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)
Isaiah 10:17-19
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Isaiah 10:17-19
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17 (A)The light of Israel will become a fire,
and (B)his Holy One a flame,
and (C)it will burn and devour
his thorns and briers (D)in one day.
18 The glory of (E)his forest and of his (F)fruitful land
the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,
and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
19 The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few
that a child can write them down.
Isaiah 10:17-19
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Isaiah 10:17-19
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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.
Psalm 68:2
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Psalm 68:2
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2 As (A)smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away;
(B)as wax melts before fire,
so the wicked shall perish before God!
Psalm 68:2
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Psalm 68:2
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