Nahum 3:11

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

You also shall be drunken: you shall be hid, you also shall seek strength because of the enemy.

American King James Version (AKJV)

You also shall be drunken: you shall be hid, you also shall seek strength because of the enemy.

American Standard Version (ASV)

Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Basic English Translation (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's Revision

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

World English Bible

You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

English Revised Version (ERV)

Thou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a strong hold because of the enemy.

Barnes's Nahum 3:11 Bible Commentary

Thou also - As thou hast done, so shall it be done unto thee. The cruelties on No, in the cycle of God's judgments, draw on the like upon Nineveh who inflicted them. "Thou also shalt be drunken" with the same cup of God's anger, entering within thee as wine doth, bereaving thee of reason and of counsel through the greatness of thy anguish, and bringing shame on thee , and a stupefaction like death. "Thou shalt be hid, a thing hidden" from the eyes of men, "as though thou hadst never been." Nahum had foretold her complete desolation: he had asked, where is she? Here he describes an abiding condition; strangely fulfilled, as perhaps never to that extent besides; her palaces, her monuments, her records of her glorious triumphs existed still in their place, but hidden out of sight, as in a tomb, under the hill-like mounds along the Tigris. "Thou also shalt seek strength, or a stronghold from the enemy," out of thyself, since thine own shall be weakness. Yet in vain, since God, is not such to thee Nahum 1:7. "They shall seek, but not find." "For then shall it be too late to cry for mercy, when it is the time of justice." "He shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy" James 2:13.

Wesley's Nahum 3:11 Bible Commentary

3:11 Thou also - Thou shalt drink deep of the bitter cup of God's displeasure. Hid - Thou shalt hide thyself. O Nineveh, as well as Alexandria. Shalt seek - Shalt sue for, and intreat assistance.