Nahum 3:11
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
Nahum 3:11 in other translations
| BSB | You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy. |
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| WEB | You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy. |
| ASV | Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy. |
| YLT | Even thou art drunken, thou art hidden, Even thou dost seek a strong place, because of an enemy. |
| DARBY | Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy. |
| BBE | And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you. |
| Webster | Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. |
What does Nahum 3:11 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nahum 3:8-19
Strong-holds, even the strongest, are no defence against the judgments of God. They shall be unable to do any thing for themselves. The Chaldeans and Medes would devour the land like canker-worms. The Assyrians also would be eaten up by their own numerous hired troops, which seem to be meant by the word rendered "merchants." Those that have done evil to their neighbours, will find it come home to them. Nineveh, and…
Nahum 3:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Nahum 3:11
- Luke 23:30
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
- Isaiah 49:26
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
- Isaiah 2:10
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 4:5
Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
- Revelation 6:15-17
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
- Isaiah 2:19
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
- Hosea 10:8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
- Psalms 75:8
For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
- Jeremiah 25:15-27
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me: To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day; …
- Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
- Micah 7:17
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of thee.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
shalt be drunken.
1:10; Ps 75:8; Isa 29:9; 49:26; 63:6; Jer 25:15-27; 51:57
thou shalt be hid.
1Sa 13:6; 14:11; Isa 2:10,19; Ho 10:8; Am 9:3; Mic 7:17; Lu 23:30
Re 6:15-17
thou also.
2:1; Jer 4:5; 8:14
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Context
- Nahum 3:10
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
- Nahum 3:11
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
- Nahum 3:12
All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Tú también serás embriagada, serás encerrada; tú también buscarás fortaleza á causa del enemigo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Toi aussi, tu seras enivrée; tu seras cachée; toi aussi, tu chercheras un lieu fort devant l’ennemi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Auch du sollst trunken werden, sollst verborgen sein auch du wirst eine Zuflucht suchen vor dem Feinde. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et tu ergo inebriaberis, et eris despecta: et tu quæres auxilium ab inimico. |