Nahum 3:6
I will throw filth at you. I will treat you with contempt, and make a spectacle of you.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
In Context
Cross References
Job 9:31you would toss me into a slime pit so that even my own clothes would hate me!
Job 30:19He has thrown me in the mud; he has humbled me like dust and ashes.
Isaiah 14:16Those who see you will stare at you, examining you closely, asking, ‘Is this the man who shook the earth, who made kingdoms tremble?
Lamentations 3:16He has broken my teeth with grit; he has trampled me in the dust.
Zephaniah 2:15This is what will happen to this triumphant city that thought it was so secure. “Look at me!” it said proudly to itself. “There is no city as great as me!” But it has become a desolate place—just a home for wild animals. Everyone who passes by will point their finger and laugh in derision.
Malachi 2:3Watch out! I am going to penalize your descendants. I will spread manure on your faces from the animals you sacrifice, the manure from your religious festivals, and you will be thrown out with it.
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 →