14 As fire burns a forest,
as a flame blazes through mountains,(A)

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14 As fire consumes the forest
    or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,(A)

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Your land is desolate,
your cities burned down;(A)
foreigners devour your fields
right in front of you—
a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.

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Your country is desolate,(A)
    your cities burned with fire;(B)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners(C)
    right before you,
    laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.(D)

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10 For they will be consumed
like entangled thorns,(A)
like the drink of a drunkard
and like straw that is fully dry.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:10 Hb obscure

10 They will be entangled among thorns(A)
    and drunk(B) from their wine;
    they will be consumed like dry stubble.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:10 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.

The Day of the Lord

“For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Armies, “not leaving them root or branches.

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Judgment and Covenant Renewal

[a]“Surely the day is coming;(A) it will burn like a furnace.(B) All the arrogant(C) and every evildoer will be stubble,(D) and the day that is coming will set them on fire,(E)” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch(F) will be left to them.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 4:1 In Hebrew texts 4:1-6 is numbered 3:19-24.