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Nahum 3:6
6I will throw dirt at you. I will do with you like you were nothing. And I will make everyone ashamed 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
4This is because Nineveh has sold herself to the enemies of God. She is like a beautiful prostitute. She uses her body and her bad magic to make all the people in other countries her slaves. 5This is why I am against you, says the Lord Almighty. I will make you like a woman whose skirt is up over her face. I will show the countries that you are like that woman. You will be like a woman who is not wearing any clothes. I will throw dirt at you. I will do with you like you were nothing. And I will make everyone ashamed of you. 7When people see you, they will run away. And they will say, ‘They have destroyed Nineveh. Nobody will be sad.’ There will be nobody to help you. 8Remember the city of Thebes that was near the River Nile. It had water all round it. The river kept it safe, like a wall. Nineveh is not better than Thebes was.
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 9:31But then God would throw me down into a dirty hole. Even my own clothes would be ashamed of me!
- Job 30:19He has thrown me down into the mud. I am no better than dust and ashes on the ground.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds make a bad smell, and they get worse. This is because I have done stupid things.
- Lamentations 3:16It is as if he caused me to eat small stones, so that the stones broke my teeth. Then he put me on the ground, and he pushed me down in the dirt.
- Malachi 2:2‘Listen carefully to what I say to you. You must respect my name properly. If not, I will punish you. I will no longer bless you but I will curse you. I am already doing that because you do not respect my name as you should.
- 1 Corinthians 4:13When people say bad things against us, we answer with kind words. We have become like dirty things that people throw away. That is still true, even today.
- Nahum 1:14Nineveh, the Lord has said what will happen to you. He has said, ‘You will have no children and your family name will have an end. I will destroy the statues that you made from wood and metal. You worship those statues in your temples. There I will make graves for you because you are bad.’
- Job 30:8They were foolish people that nobody respected. People chased them away from their land.
- Malachi 2:9‘So I have caused all the people to insult you. They no longer respect you, because you do not obey my rules. When you teach my people, you are kind to some of them but you cheat others.’
- 1 Kings 9:7Then I will remove the Israelite people from the land that I have given to them. I will turn away from this temple that I have made a special place for people to worship me. People from all the other nations will insult the Israelites and they will laugh at them.
- Isaiah 14:16In that deep place, people will look at you carefully. They will be very surprised. They will think, “This is the man who caused the earth to shake. He caused kingdoms to shake with fear. Is that really true?
- Jeremiah 51:37Babylon will become a heap of stones. Wild animals will live there. People will see that it is a disgusting place, and they will laugh at it. Nobody will live there.
- Zephaniah 2:15All this will happen to that city, the proud city. That city's people said in their minds, ‘Here we are. We are greater than all the other people.’ But then, other people will destroy their city! Only bits of it will still be there. Then wild animals will come and they will lie down in it. People will see this. So any people who pass by the city will make noises with their lips. And they will hold their fists up. In this way, they will show that they think bad things about the city.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9This is what I think: as apostles, God has put us last of everyone. People see us like we are prisoners at the end of the line. They are taking us to die in a public place. Everybody in the world has come to look at us, both people and angels.
- Hebrews 10:33Sometimes people insulted you. They made you ashamed in front of other people. Sometimes you chose to help other Christians who had trouble like that. Their troubles became your troubles.
- Jude 1:7Also, remember what happened to the cities called Sodom and Gomorrah, and the other cities that were near them. Like those bad angels, the people who lived in those places were also doing evil things. They were having sex with people who were not their husbands or their wives. They liked to have sex in other ways that are not right. God destroyed their cities. He has punished them with fire that never stops burning. That is an example of what will happen to wicked people like them.
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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