Tree of Life Version
Nahum 3:6
6Yes, I will fling filth on you. I will treat you with contempt and set you up as 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 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 many fornications of the elegant prostitute, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations by her fornications, and clans through her sorceries— 5Behold, I am against you —it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot— I will lift your skirts over your face, I will show nations your nakedness and kingdoms your disgrace. Yes, I will fling filth on you. I will treat you with contempt and set you up as a spectacle. 7So it will be that all who see you will recoil from you and say, “Nineveh has been ravaged! Who will lament for her?” Where will I find comforters for you? 8Are you better than No-amon, situated among channels of the Nile, water surrounding her, whose fortress and wall was water ?
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 would plunge me into a pit and my own clothes would detest me.
- Job 30:19He has cast me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- Psalms 38:5For my iniquities are on my head— like a burden too heavy for me.
- Lamentations 3:16He broke my teeth with gravel. He made me wallow in ashes.
- Malachi 2:2If you will not listen, and if you will not take to heart to give glory to My Name” —says Adonai-Tzva’ot— “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, indeed I have cursed them, because you did not take it to heart.
- 1 Corinthians 4:13When we are slandered, we speak kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the dregs of all things—even to this moment.
- Nahum 1:14Adonai has issued a command against you: no more will your name be spread. From the house of your gods I will cut off the idol and metal image. I will prepare your grave— for you have become worthless.
- Job 30:8A senseless and nameless brood, they were cast out from the land.
- Malachi 2:9“So I also have made you despised and lowly to all the people, because you are not keeping My ways but show favoritism in Torah.”
- 1 Kings 9:7then will I 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. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
- Isaiah 14:16Those who see you will stare at you, reflecting on what has become of you: “Is this the one who shook the earth, who made kingdoms tremble,
- Jeremiah 51:37Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling for jackals, a horror and a hissing, uninhabited.
- Zephaniah 2:15This is the exultant city, dwelling securely, saying in her heart, ‘It’s me--no one else but me!’ How did she become a ruin, an abode for wild beasts? Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9For it seems to me that God has put us, the emissaries, on display last of all—like men sentenced to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
- Hebrews 10:33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to abuses and afflictions, and other times you became partners with those who were treated this way.
- Jude 1:7In the same way as these angels, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them—having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after a different sort of flesh—are displayed as an example, 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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