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.
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.
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
Nahum 3:11
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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 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.
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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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]
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 23:6 Hebrew worthlessness
- 2 Samuel 23:7 Hebrew consumed with fire in the sitting
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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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.
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 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.
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!
2 Samuel 13:28
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28 Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon's (A)heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”
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1 Samuel 25:36
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36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, (A)he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart (B)was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing (C)at all until the morning light.
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