“For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.”
Though Nineveh be thorny and drunken, they will be consumed like dry stubble—the vivid imagery of the wicked as useless vegetation emphasizes Nineveh's liability to judgment despite appearances of strength. The thorns suggest pain and trouble inflicted by Nineveh; the drunkenness implies moral stupor and delusion about coming judgment. Both images render Nineveh combustible, ready for the fire of divine wrath.
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