Christian Standard Bible
Nahum 3:6
6I will throw filth on you and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
Nahum 3:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
- New International Version (NIV)I will pelt you with filth, I will treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I will cast abominable filth upon you, Make you vile, And make you a spectacle.
Context of Nahum 3:6
4Because of the continual prostitution of the prostitute, the attractive mistress of sorcery, who treats nations and clans like merchandise by her prostitution and sorcery, 5I am against you. This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. I will lift your skirts over your face and display your nakedness to nations, your shame to kingdoms. I will throw filth on you and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you. 7Then all who see you will recoil from you, saying, “Nineveh is devastated; who will show sympathy to her?” Where can I find anyone to comfort you? 8Are you better than Thebes that sat along the Nile with water surrounding her, whose rampart was the sea, the river her wall?
Read all of Nahum 3Nahum 3:6 word by word
וְהִשְׁלַכְתִּ֥י עָלַ֛יִךְ שִׁקֻּצִ֖ים וְנִבַּלְתִּ֑יךְ וְשַׂמְתִּ֖יךְ כְּרֹֽאִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Nahum 3:6
- Job 9:31then you dip me in a pit of mud, and my own clothes despise me!
- Job 30:19He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.
- Lamentations 3:16He ground my teeth with gravel and made me cower in the dust.
- Malachi 2:2If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart to honor my name,” says the Lord of Armies, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.
- 1 Corinthians 4:13when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the scum of the earth, like everyone’s garbage.
- Nahum 1:14The Lord has issued an order concerning you: There will be no offspring to carry on your name. I will eliminate the carved idol and cast image from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.
- Job 30:8Foolish men, without even a name. They were forced to leave the land.
- Malachi 2:9“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people because you are not keeping my ways but are showing partiality in your instruction.”
- 1 Kings 9:7I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for my name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
- Isaiah 14:16Those who see you will stare at you; they will look closely at you: “Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble, who shook the kingdoms,
- Jeremiah 51:37Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den, a desolation and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.
- Zephaniah 2:15This is the jubilant city that lives in security, that says to herself: I exist, and there is no one else. What a desolation she has become, a place for wild animals to lie down! Everyone who passes by her scoffs and shakes his fist.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
- Hebrews 10:33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way.
- Jude 1:7Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Commentaries on Nahum 3:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6I will cast abominable filth upon thee - I will set thee as a gazing-stock. This was a punishment precisely like our pillory. They put such women in the pillory as a gazing-stock; and then, children and others threw mud, dirt, and filth of all kinds at them.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee - Alb.: “like a weight, that what thou wouldest not take heed to as sin, thou mayest feel in punishment.” “Abominable things had God seen” Jeremiah 13:27 in her doings; with abominable things would he punish her. Man would fain sin, and forget it as a thing past. “God maketh him to possess the iniquities of his youth” Job 13:26, and binds them around him, so that they make him to appear what they are, “vile”…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. cast abominable filth upon thee--as infamous harlots used to be treated. gazing stock--exposed to public ignominy as a warning to others (Eze 28:17).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Nahum 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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