For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Even when they're all tangled up together like thorny bushes, even when they're completely wasted like drunk people stumbling around, they'll be burned up like completely dry straw.
No matter how tough or chaotic your enemies seem, God can handle them like fire through dry grass.
📚 Historical Context
The book of Nahum was written by the prophet Nahum in the 7th century BC, as a declaration of God's judgment against Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, which had brutally oppressed Israel and other nations through its military conquests and idolatry. In Nahum 1:10, the verse uses vivid metaphors to describe the Assyrians as tangled thorns and drunken people, illustrating their vulnerability and inevitable destruction like dry stubble in a fire. This prophecy brought comfort to the people of Judah, assuring them that God would deliver them from their oppressors.
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