New English Translation
Nahum 3:6
6I will pelt you with filth; I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle.
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
4“Because you have acted like a wanton prostitute – a seductive mistress who practices sorcery, who enslaves nations by her harlotry, and entices peoples by her sorcery – 5I am against you,” declares the Lord who commands armies. “I will strip off your clothes! I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms; I will pelt you with filth; I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle. 7Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say, ‘Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?’ There will be no one to comfort you!” 8You are no more secure than Thebes – she was located on the banks of the Nile; the waters surrounded her, herrampart was the sea, the water was 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 plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
- Job 30:19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins.
- Lamentations 3:16He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.
- Malachi 2:2If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses – indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.
- 1 Corinthians 4:13when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.
- Nahum 1:14The Lord has issued a decree against you: “Your dynasty will come to an end. I will destroy the idols and images in the temples of your gods. I will desecrate your grave – because you are accursed!”
- Job 30:8Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.
- Malachi 2:9“Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction.”
- 1 Kings 9:7then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations.
- Isaiah 14:16Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking: “Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble?
- Jeremiah 51:37Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives.
- Zephaniah 2:15This is how the once-proud city will end up – the city that was so secure. She thought to herself, “I am unique! No one can compare to me!” What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live! Everyone who passes by her taunts her and shakes his fist.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
- Hebrews 10:33At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.
- Jude 1:7So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering 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
In the dictionaries
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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