OLD TESTAMENT

Nahum 1:10

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For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

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Verse 10. Dry. The Assyrians, feasting in the hopes that they would speedily become masters of Jerusalem, were cut off in one night. Worthington.—God’s enemies cannot escape; as when a thorn bush has taken fire, all must perish. Psalms 57:10. Isaiah 9:18. Calmet.

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