Nahum 3:6

I will throw disgusting filth on you and make you vile; I will make you someone that everyone will look at. 1

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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

5“See, I am against you—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts—I will raise up your skirt over your face 1 and show your private parts to the nations, your shame to the kingdoms. 1

7It will come about that everyone who looks at you will flee from you and say, 1 'Nineveh is destroyed; who will weep for her?' 1 Where can I find anyone to comfort you?” 1

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Cross References

Job 9:31God would plunge me in a ditch, 1 and my own clothes would be disgusted with me. 1

Job 30:19He has thrown me into the mud; 1 I have become like dust and ashes. 1

Isaiah 14:16Those who see you will gaze at you and they will pay attention to you. 1 They will say, 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, 1

Lamentations 3:16He has made my teeth grind with gravel, and he made me cower in the ashes. 1

Zephaniah 2:15This is the exultant city that lived without fear, 1 that said in her heart, “I am, and nothing is my equal.” 1 How she has become a horror, a place for beasts to lie down in. 1 Everyone that passes by her will hiss and shake his fist at her.

Malachi 2:3See, I am about to rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the dung from your festivals, and he will take you away with it. + 2:3 Instead of rebuke your descendants , which the Hebrew text has, some ancient and modern versions have cut off your shoulder (or arm ). Some other modern versions have corrupt your descendants . + 2:3 Instead of he will take you away with it , which is in the Hebrew text, some ancient and modern versions have I will take you away from beside me , that is, from my presence .

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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