Nahum 3:5
Watch out! For I am against you, declares the Lord Almighty. I will lift your skirts over your face and let the nations see your nakedness, and kingdoms see your shame.
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6I will throw filth at you. I will treat you with contempt, and make a spectacle of you.
Cross References
Isaiah 47:3You will be seen naked; what should be kept private will be shamefully exposed. I will take vengeance—I won't spare anyone.
Jeremiah 13:26I will pull your skirts up over your face, so you will be seen naked and ashamed.
Ezekiel 23:25I feel so strongly about what you've done that I will oppose you, and they will treat you very badly. They will cut off your noses and ears, and they will kill those of you who are left. They will take away your sons and daughters as prisoners, and those of you who are left will be destroyed by fire.
Micah 1:11Leave, people of Shaphir, naked and ashamed. People of Zanaan don't come out. People of Beth Ezel mourn, for you have lost your support.
Habakkuk 2:16In turn you will be filled with shame instead of glory. Drink and expose your nakedness! The cup the Lord holds in his right hand will be passed round to you and your glory will turn to shame.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:2-8
The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; 2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. 3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: 4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the… Read the whole commentary →