Nahum 3:6
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
Nahum 3:6 in other translations
| BSB | I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you. |
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| WEB | I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle. |
| ASV | And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock. |
| YLT | And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight. |
| DARBY | And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock. |
| BBE | I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all. |
| Webster | And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock. |
What does Nahum 3:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nahum 3:1-7
When proud sinners are brought down, others should learn not to lift themselves up. The fall of this great city should be a lesson to private persons, who increase wealth by fraud and oppression. They are preparing enemies for themselves; and if the Lord sees good to punish them in this world, they will have none to pity them. Every man who seeks his own prosperity, safety, and peace, should not only act in an…
Nahum 3:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Nahum 3:6
- Malachi 2:9
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
- Psalms 38:5-7
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
- Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
- Job 9:31
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
- Nahum 1:14
And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
- Hebrews 10:33
Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
- Job 30:8
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
- 1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
- Malachi 2:2
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
- Lamentations 3:16
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
- Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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Context
- Nahum 3:5
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.
- Nahum 3:6
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
- Nahum 3:7
And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
Nahum 3:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y echaré sobre ti suciedades, y te afrentaré, y te pondré como estiércol. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et je jetterai sur toi des ordures, et je t’avilirai, et je te donnerai en spectacle. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und ich werde Unrat auf dich werfen, und dich verächtlich machen und dich zur Schau stellen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et projiciam super te abominationes, et contumeliis te afficiam, et ponam te in exemplum. |