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Nahum 3:6

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee according to thine unclean ways, and will make thee a public example.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

5Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord God Almighty, and I will uncover thy skirts in thy presence, and I will show the nations thy shame, and the kingdoms thy disgrace.

7And it shall be that everyone that sees thee shall go down from thee, and shall say, Wretched Nineveh! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?

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Cross References

Job 9:31Thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, 1 And my garment had abhorred me. 1

Job 30:19And thou hast counted me as clay; 1 My portion is in dust and ashes. 1

Isaiah 14:16They that see thee shall wonder at thee, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;

Lamentations 3:16And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, 1 He has fed me with ashes. 1

Zephaniah 2:15This is the scornful city that dwells securely, that says in her heart, I am, and there is no longer any to be after me: how is she become desolate, a habitation of wild beasts! everyone that passes through her shall hiss, and shake his hands.

Malachi 2:3Behold, I turn my back upon you, and I will scatter dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts, and I will carry you away at the same time.

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 →

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