Nahum 3:6 “I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a…”

Nahum 3:6

I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

World English Bible

I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle.

American Standard Version

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.

Geneva Bible 1599

And I will cast filth vpon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gasing stocke.

Darby Translation

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.

Young's Literal Translation

And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.

Bible in Basic English

I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.

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Cross references

“I will cast”

Job 9:31 Psalm 38:5–7 Job 30:19 Lamentations 3:16 Malachi 2:2 1 Corinthians 4:13

Job 9:31 · BSB

then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

Psalm 38:5–7 · BSB

My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

Job 30:19 · BSB

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Lamentations 3:16 · BSB

He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.

Malachi 2:2 · BSB

If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you ar…

1 Corinthians 4:13 · BSB

when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

“make”

Malachi 2:9 Nahum 1:14 Job 30:8

Malachi 2:9 · BSB

“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”

Nahum 1:14 · BSB

The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you…

Job 30:8 · BSB

A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

“will set”

Jeremiah 51:37 1 Corinthians 4:9 Hebrews 10:33 Isaiah 14:16–19 Zephaniah 2:15 Jude 1:7

Jeremiah 51:37 · BSB

Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

1 Corinthians 4:9 · BSB

For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

Hebrews 10:33 · BSB

Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.

Isaiah 14:16–19 · BSB

Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,

Zephaniah 2:15 · BSB

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Jude 1:7 · BSB

In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.

7Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”

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