Verse Lens · Context pointer
Nahum 1:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
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Role in This Section
Piles up tangled thorns, drunkenness, and dry stubble to portray the plotters' confused and combustible collapse.
Read It With
- Nahum 1:9-11
Read Nahum 1:10 with 1:9-11. Piles up tangled thorns, drunkenness, and dry stubble to portray the plotters' confused and combustible collapse. The complete unit establishes this movement: The oracle ridicules resistance to the LORD: tangled strength, intoxicated confidence, and a counselor's destructive plot end in complete consumption rather than a second campaign of affliction.
Continue in Context
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Read Nahum 1:9-11 — Plots against the LORD End Like Dry StubbleSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Nahum 1:9-11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Nahum
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew words, morphology, clause relationships, repeated roots, names, and the base wording behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Nah.xml, 1:9-11
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