Nahum 1:10

"For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble."

"Entangled like thorns ..." Formidable as a hedge of thorns might appear, when the Lord is ready to remove it, it shall prove to be no obstacle, but itself shall provide the fuel of its own consuming fire.

"Drunken as with their drink ..." most commentators understand this as a metaphor of nations being drunk upon their own power and intoxicated with their own boasting. Certainly the expression is so used by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 13:9,13-14) and by Habakkuk (Habakkuk 2:5, margin ASV); but it ought not to be overlooked that both literal drunkenness and literal fire entered into the fall of Nineveh. The king had ordered a celebration of what was supposed to be the victory; and it became a drunken orgy. In the midst of it, the flood came; the enemies repulsed previously, entered to destroy, to loot, and to burn the city. The king, recognizing that all was lost and that Nahum's prophecy was indeed fulfilled before his eyes, burned the palaces and his wives, and servants, and concubines, along with himself. Truly God spoke his own words by the mouth of Nahum.