Nahum 3:6
And I ( Hashem ) will cast abominable filth upon thee, 1 and make thee contemptibly vile, and will make thee a spectacle. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 9:31Yet shalt Thou plunge me in the shachat (slime pit), 1 and mine own clothes shall abhor me. 1
Job 30:19He hath cast me into the chomer, 1 and I am become like aphar and ashes. 1
Isaiah 14:16They that see thee shall gaze at thee, 1 and consider thee, saying, 1 Is this the ish (man) that made ha'aretz to tremble, 1 that did shake mamlechot (kingdoms); 1
Lamentations 3:16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel, 1 He hath covered me with aphar. 1
Zephaniah 2:15This is HaIr HaAlizah (the rejoicing city) that dwelt carelessly, 1 that said in her lev: 1 I am, and there is none beside me; 1 how is she become a desolation, 1 a place for beasts to lie down in! 1 Every one that passeth by her 1 shall hiss, and shake his fist.
Malachi 2:3Hineni, I am rebuking your zera, 1 and I will spread dung upon your faces, 1 even the dung of your chagim; 1 and it will take you away with it. 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 →