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Nahum 1:10
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Nahum 1:10
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10 Like thorns they are entangled;
like drunkards they are drunk;
they are consumed like dry straw.(A)
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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Malachi 4:1
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Malachi 4:1
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The Great Day of the Lord
4 [a]See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.(A)
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- 4.1 3.19 in Heb
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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- 3.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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 burned like a fire,
consuming briers and thorns;
it kindled the thickets of the forest,
and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.(A)
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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Foreign Invasion Predicted
24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will become rotten,
and their blossom go up like dust,
for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts
and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.(A)
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 her sages drunk,
also her governors, her deputies, and her warriors;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake,
says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.(A)
2 Samuel 23:6-7
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2 Samuel 23:6-7
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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 know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.(A) 3 When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!(B)
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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 When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink
and make them drunk, until they become merry
and then sleep a perpetual sleep
and never wake, says the Lord.(A)
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.
If it gives me thorns and briers,
I will march to battle against it.
I will burn it up.(A)
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 light of Israel will become a fire
and his Holy One a flame,
and it will burn and devour
his thorns and briers in one day.(A)
18 The glory of his forest and his fruitful land
the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,
and it will be as when an invalid wastes away.(B)
19 The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few
that a child can write them down.(C)
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 smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
as wax melts before the fire,
let the wicked perish before God.(A)
Psalm 68:2
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Psalm 68:2
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