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Nah. 3:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

Thou also shalt be drunkend: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

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Thou also.Diodorus relates, that while the Assyrian army were feasting for their former victories, those about Arbaces being informed of their negligence and drunkenness, fell upon them unexpectedly, slew many, and drove the rest into the city.shalt be drunken.

Nah. 1:10• ¹⁰Though they be tangled together as thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely. (Nah. 1:10)

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Psa. 75:8• ⁸For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and it foameth with wine, it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same; yea, the dregs thereof shall all the wicked of the earth drain off, and drink. (Psa. 75:8)

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Isa. 29:9• ⁹Be astounded and astonished, blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. (Isa. 29:9)

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Isa. 49:26• ²⁶And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with new wine. And all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. (Isa. 49:26)

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Isa. 63:6• ⁶And I have trodden down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury; and their blood have I brought down to the earth. (Isa. 63:6)

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Jer. 25:15‑27• ¹⁵For thus hath Jehovah the God of Israel said unto me: Take the cup of the wine of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send thee to drink it.
¹⁶And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
¹⁷And I took the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Jehovah had sent me:
¹⁸Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a waste, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
¹⁹Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
²⁰and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gazah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
²¹Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
²²and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles that are beyond the sea;
²³Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their beard cut off;
²⁴and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert;
²⁵and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
²⁶and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
²⁷And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunken, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword that I will send among you. (Jer. 25:15‑27)

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Jer. 51:57• ⁵⁷And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts. (Jer. 51:57)

thou shalt be hid.

1 Sam. 13:6• ⁶And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed); and the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in cliffs, and in strongholds, and in pits. (1 Sam. 13:6)

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1 Sam. 14:11• ¹¹And both of them shewed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. (1 Sam. 14:11)

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Isa. 2:10,19• ¹⁰Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.
¹⁹And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth. (Isa. 2:10,19)

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Hos. 10:8• ⁸And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up upon their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us! and to the hills, Fall on us! (Hos. 10:8)

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Amos 9:3• ³and though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them; (Amos 9:3)

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Mic. 7:17• ¹⁷They shall lick dust like the serpent; like crawling things of the earth, they shall come trembling forth from their close places. They shall turn with fear to Jehovah our God, and shall be afraid because of thee. (Mic. 7:17)

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Luke 23:30• ³⁰Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us; and to the hills, Cover us: (Luke 23:30)

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Rev. 6:15‑17• ¹⁵And the kings of the earth, and the great, and the chiliarchs, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;
¹⁶and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and have us hidden from the face of him that sits upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
¹⁷because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to stand? (Rev. 6:15‑17)

thou also.

Nah. 2:1• ¹He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thy face: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. (Nah. 2:1)

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Jer. 4:5• ⁵Declare ye in Judah, and cause it to be heard in Jerusalem, and say, … and blow the trumpet in the land, cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities. (Jer. 4:5)

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Jer. 8:14• ¹⁴Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities, and let us be silent there: for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah. (Jer. 8:14)

• The charge of drunkenness does in a figurative sense take in that false security in which Nineveh lay, like Babylon afterward in a later day, yet as a fact it is notorious that there was a surprise at Nineveh during a religious festival of their gods, which may remind us of the infamous feast of Belshazzar the very night that Babylon was taken. Thus there was an unholy revelry, not without either impious honor to their false gods on the one hand, or impious dishonor to the true God on the other hand. In short, a feast with the drunkenness that attended them was bound up with the siege of Nineveh, just as with Babylon’s. But the way so far differed, as the camp of Nineveh seems to have been surprised before the city was taken. Consequently we hear in chapter 1 how they were caught as thorns folded in drunkenness. All this is described before the account of taking the bloody city. But if such was the case with Nineveh, not so with Babylon: notoriously the drunken feast of King Belshazzar took place on the night when it was taken. At Nineveh the surprise of the camp was without the city before its fall. (“Nahum 3” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hidf; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy.

JND Translation Notes

Or "shalt hide thyself."

W. Kelly Translation

Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou shalt seek strength because of the enemy.