Nahum 1:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁰ Like thorns they are entangled,
    like drunkards they are drunk;
    they are consumed like dry straw.
¹¹ From you one has gone out
    who plots evil against the Lord,
    one who counsels wickedness.

¹² Thus says the Lord,
‘Though they are at full strength and many,^[a]
    they will be cut off and pass away.
Though I have afflicted you,
    I will afflict you no more.