New King James Version
Nahum 3:6
6I will cast abominable filth upon you, Make you vile, And make you a 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 Living Translation (NLT)I will cover you with filth and show the world how vile you really are.
Context of Nahum 3:6
4Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot, The mistress of sorceries, Who sells nations through her harlotries, And families through her sorceries. 5“Behold, I am against you,” says the Lord of hosts; “I will lift your skirts over your face, I will show the nations your nakedness, And the kingdoms your shame. I will cast abominable filth upon you, Make you vile, And make you a spectacle. 7It shall come to pass that all who look upon you Will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her?’ Where shall I seek comforters for you?” 8Are you better than No Amon That was situated by the River, That had the waters around her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall was the sea?
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 9:31Yet You will plunge me into the pit, And my own clothes will abhor me.
- Job 30:19He has cast me into the mire, And I have become like dust and ashes.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds are foul and festering Because of my foolishness.
- Lamentations 3:16He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And covered me with ashes.
- Malachi 2:2If you will not hear, And if you will not take it to heart, To give glory to My name,” Says the Lord of hosts, “I will send a curse upon you, And I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, Because you do not take it to heart.
- 1 Corinthians 4:13being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
- Nahum 1:14The Lord has given a command concerning you: “Your name shall be perpetuated no longer. Out of the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the molded image. I will dig your grave, For you are vile.”
- Job 30:8They were sons of fools, Yes, sons of vile men; They were scourged from the land.
- Malachi 2:9“Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base Before all the people, Because you have not kept My ways But have shown partiality in the law.”
- 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
- Isaiah 14:16“Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
- Jeremiah 51:37Babylon shall become a heap, A dwelling place for jackals, An astonishment and a hissing, Without an inhabitant.
- Zephaniah 2:15This is the rejoicing city That dwelt securely, That said in her heart, “I am it, and there is none besides me.” How has she become a desolation, A place for beasts to lie down! Everyone who passes by her Shall hiss and shake his fist.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
- Hebrews 10:33partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated;
- Jude 1:7as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance 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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