Nahum 3:6
And I will cast upon thee abominable filth, and treat thee as foolish,—and set thee as a gazing-stock.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 9:31Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:
Job 30:19He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Isaiah 14:16They who see thee, upon thee, will gaze, Upon thee, will thoughtfully muse,—Is this the man who startled the earth? Who terrified kingdoms?
Lamentations 3:16And he hath crushed, with gravel-stones, my teeth, hath made me cower in ashes;
Zephaniah 2:15This, is the city exultant, that sat secure, that said in her heart, I, [am]! and no one besides! How hath she become a desolation! a lair of beasts, every one passing, by her doth hiss, shaketh his hand.
Malachi 2:3Behold me! threatening, on your account, the seed, and I will scatter refuse upon your faces, the refuse of your festivals,—and one shall carry you away unto it;
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 →