Nahum 1:10
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10 For while tangled (A)like thorns,
(B)And while drunken like drunkards,
(C)They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.
Micah 7:4
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4 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.
Malachi 4:1
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The Great Day of God
4 “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.
Nahum 3:11
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11 You also will be (A)drunk;
You will be hidden;
You also will seek refuge from the enemy.
Isaiah 9:18
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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.
Isaiah 5:24
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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.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:24 Lit. tongue of fire
2 Samuel 23:6-7
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6 But the sons of rebellion shall all be as thorns thrust away,
Because they cannot be taken with hands.
7 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.”
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 23:7 Lit. filled
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
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2 For you yourselves know perfectly that (A)the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 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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Jeremiah 51:57
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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.
Jeremiah 51:39
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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.
Isaiah 27:4
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4 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.
Isaiah 10:17-19
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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.
Psalm 68:2
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2 (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.
2 Samuel 13:28
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28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, “Watch now, when Amnon’s (A)heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon!’ then kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and [a]valiant.”
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- 2 Samuel 13:28 Lit. sons of valor
1 Samuel 25:36
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36 Now Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was, (A)holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light.
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