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Nahum 3:5

Hineni, I am against thee, saith Hashem Tzva'os; 1 and I will lift thy skirts over thy faces, 1 and I will show the Goyim thy nakedness, 1 and the mamlachot thy shame. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

In Context

4Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the alluring zonah, 1 the ba'alat keshafim (the mistress of sorceries), 1 that enslaveth Goyim through her prostitutions, 1 and mishpochot through her keshafim; 1

6And I ( Hashem ) will cast abominable filth upon thee, 1 and make thee contemptibly vile, and will make thee a spectacle. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 47:3Thy ervat (nakedness) shall be exposed, 1 yes, thy cherpah (shame, reproach) shall be seen; 1 I will take nakam (vengeance) 1 and I will not be as adam when I meet thee. 1

Jeremiah 13:26Therefore will I uncover thy skirts over thy panim, 1 that thy shame may appear. 1

Ezekiel 23:25And I will set My kina (jealousy) against thee, and they shall deal in chemah (wrath) with thee; they shall cut off thy nose and thine oznayim; and thy remnant shall fall by the cherev; they shall take thy banim and thy banot; and thy remnant shall be devoured by the eish.

Micah 1:11Pass ye on your way, thou inhabitant of Shaphir, 1 in nakedness and shame; 1 the inhabitants of Tza'anan dare not come out. 1 Beit-Ha'etzel is in mourning; 1 it withdraws from you its support. 1

Habakkuk 2:16Thou art filled with shame instead of kavod; 1 drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered; 1 the kos of Hashemʼs right hand shall be turned against thee, 1 and utter shame shall be on thy kavod. 1

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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