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What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time. 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble. 11 One has gone out of you who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

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What are you scheming against the Lord?
    He will bring about utter desolation—
        adversity will not strike twice!
10 Indeed, while tangled as by a thorn bush,
    while drunken as by a strong drink,
        the Ninevites[a] will be burned like dry straw.
11 Someone has left you who plans evil against the Lord.
    He is a demonic counselor.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:10 Lit. they
  2. Nahum 1:11 Or a worthless counselor; Lit. a counselor of Belial