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Nahum 1:10
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Nahum 1:10
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10 His enemies, tangled like thornbushes
and staggering like drunks,
will be burned up like dry stubble in a field.
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 Even the best of them is like a brier;
the most honest is as dangerous as a hedge of thorns.
But your judgment day is coming swiftly now.
Your time of punishment is here, a time of confusion.
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 Coming Day of Judgment
4 [a]The Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, “The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. On that day the arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw. They will be consumed—roots, branches, and all.
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- 4:1 Verses 4:1-6 are numbered 3:19-24 in Hebrew text.
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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11 And you, Nineveh, will also stagger like a drunkard.
You will hide for fear of the attacking enemy.
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 This wickedness is like a brushfire.
It burns not only briers and thorns
but also sets the forests ablaze.
Its burning sends up clouds 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, just as fire licks up stubble
and dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will rot
and their flowers wither.
For they have rejected the law of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies;
they have 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 I will make her officials and wise men drunk,
along with her captains, officers, and warriors.
They will fall asleep
and never wake up again!”
says the King, whose name is
the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
2 Samuel 23:6-7
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2 Samuel 23:6-7
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6 But the godless are like thorns to be thrown away,
for they tear the hand that touches them.
7 One must use iron tools to chop them down;
they will be totally consumed by fire.”
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 know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. 3 When people are saying, “Everything is peaceful and secure,” then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman’s labor pains begin. And there will be no 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 And while they lie inflamed with all their wine,
I will prepare a different kind of feast for them.
I will make them drink until they fall asleep,
and they will never wake up again,”
says 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 My anger will be gone.
If I find briers and thorns growing,
I will attack them;
I will burn them up—
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 The Lord, the Light of Israel, will be a fire;
the Holy One will be a flame.
He will devour the thorns and briers with fire,
burning up the enemy in a single night.
18 The Lord will consume Assyria’s glory
like a fire consumes a forest in a fruitful land;
it will waste away like sick people in a plague.
19 Of all that glorious forest, only a few trees will survive—
so few that a child could count them!
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 Blow them away like smoke.
Melt them like wax in a fire.
Let the wicked perish in the presence of God.
Psalm 68:2
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Psalm 68:2
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