Nahum 3:11

New Living Translation

And you, Nineveh, will also stagger like a drunkard. You will hide for fear of the attacking enemy.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
So, Nineveh, you will also fall like a drunk. You will try to hide. You will look for a safe place away from the enemy.

New American Standard Bible
You too will become drunk, You will be hidden. You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.

New Century Version
Nineveh, you will be drunk, too. You will hide; you will look for a place safe from the enemy.

Update Bible Version
You also shall be drunk; you shall be hid; you also shall seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

Amplified Bible
You too [Nineveh] will become drunk [with the cup of God's wrath]; You will be hidden. You too [Nineveh] will search [in vain] for a refuge from the enemy.

English Standard Version
You also will be drunken; you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou therfor schalt be drunkun, and schalt be dispisid, and thou schalt seke helpe of enemye.

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

Berean Standard Bible
You too will become drunk; You will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

Contemporary English Version
Nineveh, now it's your turn! You will get drunk and try to hide from your enemy.

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

Bible in Basic English
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.

Complete Jewish Bible
You too, [Ninveh,] will be drunk; your senses completely overcome. You too will seek a refuge from the enemy.

Darby Translation
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt swoon; thou also shalt seek a refuge because of the enemy.

King James Version (1611)
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt bee hid, thou also shalt seeke strength because of the enemie.

New Life Bible
You also will become drunk. You will be hidden. You will look for a safe place from those who hate you.

New Revised Standard
You also will be drunken, you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also thou shalt bee drunken: thou shalt hide thy selfe, and shalt seeke helpe because of the enemie.

George Lamsa Translation
You also shall be grieved and you shall be despised; you also shall seek help because of your enemies.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou too, shalt be drunken, thou shalt hide thyself, - thou too, shalt seek shelter from the foe:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thou also shalt be made drunk, and shalt be despised: and thou shalt seek help from the enemies.

Revised Standard Version
You also will be drunken, you will be dazed; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou [also] shalt be drunke [with trouble] thou shalt be hyd: thou also shalt seke after strength against thine enemie.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt be drunken, and shalt be overlooked; and thou shalt seek for thyself strength because of thine enemies.

Good News Translation
Nineveh, you too will fall into a drunken stupor! You too will try to escape from your enemies.

Christian Standard Bible®
You also will become drunk;you will hide.You also will seek refuge from the enemy.

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

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

Lexham English Bible
You also will behave like a drunkard; You also will hide yourself; You also will seek refuge from the enemy.

Literal Translation
You also shall be drunken; you shall be hidden; you also shall seek a fortress from the enemy.

Young's Literal Translation
Even thou art drunken, thou art hidden, Even thou dost seek a strong place, because of an enemy.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euen so shalt thou also be droncken, and hyde thy self, and seke some helpe agaynst thine enemy.

New English Translation
You too will act like drunkards; you will go into hiding; you too will seek refuge from the enemy.

New King James Version
You also will be drunk; You will be hidden; You also will seek refuge from the enemy.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
You too will become drunk, You will be hidden. You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.

Legacy Standard Bible
You too will become drunk;You will be hidden.You too will search for a strong defense from the enemy.

Contextual Overview

⁸ Are you any better than the city of Thebes, situated on the Nile River, surrounded by water? She was protected by the river on all sides, walled in by water. ⁹ Ethiopia and the land of Egypt gave unlimited assistance. The nations of Put and Libya were among her allies. ¹⁰ Yet Thebes fell, and her people were led away as captives. Her babies were dashed to death against the stones of the streets. Soldiers threw dice to get Egyptian officers as servants. All their leaders were bound in chains. ¹¹ And you, Nineveh, will also stagger like a drunkard. You will hide for fear of the attacking enemy. ¹² All your fortresses will fall. They will be devoured like the ripe figs that fall into the mouths of those who shake the trees. ¹³ Your troops will be as weak and helpless as women. The gates of your land will be opened wide to the enemy and set on fire and burned. ¹⁴ Get ready for the siege! Store up water! Strengthen the defenses! Go into the pits to trample clay, and pack it into molds, making bricks to repair the walls. ¹⁵ But the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. The enemy will consume you like locusts, devouring everything they see. There will be no escape, even if you multiply like swarming locusts. ¹⁶ Your merchants have multiplied until they outnumber the stars. But like a swarm of locusts, they strip the land and fly away. ¹⁷ Your guards and officials are also like swarming locusts that crowd together in the hedges on a cold day. But like locusts that fly away when the sun comes up, all of them will fly away and disappear.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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: Nahum 1:10, Psalms 75:8, Isaiah 29:9, Isaiah 49:26, Isaiah 63:6, Jeremiah 25:15-27, Jeremiah 51:57

thou shalt be hid: 1 Samuel 13:6, 1 Samuel 14:11, Isaiah 2:10, Isaiah 2:19, Hosea 10:8, Amos 9:3, Micah 7:17, Luke 23:30, Revelation 6:15-17

thou also: Nahum 2:1, Jeremiah 4:5, Jeremiah 8:14

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 25:16 - General Jeremiah 48:26 - ye him Jeremiah 51:39 - their heat

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
But the Lord said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground!

Psalms 50:21
While you did all this, I remained silent, and you thought I didn't care. But now I will rebuke you, listing all my charges against you.

Romans 3:20
For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou also shalt be drunken,.... This is said to Nineveh, whose turn would be next to drink of the cup of the wrath of God, and be inebriated with it, so that they should not know where they were, or what they did; and be as unable to guide and help themselves as a drunken man. So the Targum,

"thou also shalt be like to a drunken man;''

this was literally true of Nineveh when taken; see Nahum 1:10:

thou shalt be hid; or, "thou shall be", as if thou wast not; as Nineveh is at this day, "hid" from the sight of men, not to be seen any more. So the Targum,

"thou shall be swallowed up or destroyed.''

The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, render it "despised"; or the meaning is, she should "hide herself" w; or be lurking about through shame, as drunken, or through fear of her enemies:

thou also shall seek strength because of the enemy; seek to others to help them against the enemy, not being able with their own strength to face them: or, seek strength "of the enemy" x; beg their lives of him, and their bread; pray for quarter, and desire to be taken under his protection; to so low and mean a state and condition should Nineveh and its inhabitants be reduced, who had given laws to all about them, and had been a terror to them.

w נעלמה "latitans", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "abscondes te", Vatablus; "eris abscondita", Burkius. x מאויב εξ εχθρων, Sept.; "ab hoste", Montanus, Calvin, Drusius, Grotius, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.