Nahum 3:6

“I will fling loathsome filth at you, and make you an object of contempt, a spectacle,

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And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

In Context

5I am against you, Nineveh” the Lord of hosts declares. “I will strip your clothes and show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

7so that everyone who sees you will flee from you and say: ‘Nineveh is laid waste, who will mourn for her?’

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Cross References

Zephaniah 2:15This is the exultant city which sat secure. The city who said to herself, I am and there is none else! How has she become a desolation! A lair of beasts! Every passerby hisses at her, shakes their hand.

Malachi 2:3I will punish your descendants! I will spread offal upon your faces, even the offal of your pilgrim feasts, you will be discarded.

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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