Nahum 1:10
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Cross-references
Nahum 3:11 uses the same drunkenness imagery — Nineveh itself will be drunken and seek refuge, mirroring the judgment described.
Malachi 4:1 uses the same 'stubble' consumed by fire for the wicked, reinforcing the image of divine judgment burning like an oven.
2 Samuel 23:6 calls the worthless 'thorns thrown away,' mirroring Nahum's entangled thorns imagery for the wicked.
2 Samuel 23:7 continues the thorn metaphor, describing burning with fire—same as Nahum's 'consumed like dry stubble.'
Isaiah 9:18 describes wickedness burning like fire consuming briers and thorns — same metaphor of judgment consuming thorns.
Isaiah 10:17-19 says God's fire will burn Assyria's thorns and briers in one day — directly parallels Nahum's thorns and stubble.
Jeremiah 51:39 has God making Babylon drunk to sleep a perpetual sleep — directly parallel to Nahum's drunken then consumed.
Jeremiah 51:57 similarly describes God making Babylon's leaders drunk to sleep forever — same imagery of drunken judgment.
Micah 7:4 compares the upright to a brier and thorn, parallel to Nahum's thorn imagery for enemies facing judgment.
Isaiah 5:24 uses the same 'stubble consumed by fire' imagery for God's judgment on the proud, directly echoing Nahum's simile.
Exodus 15:7 also says God's fury 'consumes them like stubble'—the same judgment simile for enemies.
Isaiah 47:14 also uses 'stubble consumed by fire' for Babylon's destruction, nearly identical to Nahum's description of the wicked.
Obadiah 1:18 uses the same 'stubble consumed by fire' image for Edom's judgment, echoing the destruction imagery here.
Isaiah 27:4 speaks of God setting thorns and briers on fire in battle — same imagery of consuming enemies as thorns.
1 Thessalonians 5:3 describes sudden destruction on those saying 'peace and safety' — paralleling Nahum's drunken ones overtaken by judgment.
2 Samuel 13:28 records Amnon killed when drunk — sudden destruction upon drunkenness, echoing Nahum's theme.
1 Samuel 25:36 shows Nabal drunk and feasting before his death — a pattern of drunkenness preceding destruction as in Nahum.