Nahum 3:6
Good News Translation
I will treat you with contempt and cover you with filth. People will stare at you in horror.

New Revised Standard Version
I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a spectacle.

Contemporary English Version
I will cover you with garbage, treat you like trash, and rub you in the dirt.

New American Bible
I will cast filth upon you, disgrace you and make you a spectacle;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee, and will make an example of thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee, and will make an example of thee.

I will cast.

Job 9:31 Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.

Job 30:19 I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.

Psalm 38:5-7 My sores are putrefied and corrupted, because of my foolishness. . . .

Lamentations 3:16 Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.

Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.

1 Corinthians 4:13 We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until now.

make.

Nahum 1:14 And the Lord will give a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name shall be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten thing out of the house of thy God, I will make it thy grave, for thou art disgraced.

Job 30:8 The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

Malachi 2:9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base before all people, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted persons in the law.

will set.

1 Kings 9:7,8 I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword among all people. . . .

Isaiah 14:16-19 They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms, . . .

Jeremiah 51:37 And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.

Zephaniah 2:15 This is the glorious city that dwelt in security: that said in her heart: I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desert, a place for beasts to lie down in? every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

1 Corinthians 4:9 For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

Hebrews 10:33 And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.

Jude 1:7 As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Context
Judgment Against Nineveh
5Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will discover thy shame to thy face, and will shew thy nakedness to the nations, and thy shame to kingdoms. 6And I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee, and will make an example of thee.7And it shall come to pass that every one that shall see thee, shall flee from thee, and shall say: Ninive is laid waste: who shall bemoan thee? whence shall I seek a comforter for thee?…
Cross References
Job 9:31
Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.

Job 30:8
The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

Isaiah 14:16
They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms,

Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.

Ezekiel 16:37
Behold, I will gather together all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all whom thou hast loved, with all whom thou hast hated: and I will gather them together against thee on every side, and will discover thy shame in their sight, and they shall see all thy nakedness.

Habakkuk 2:16
Thou art filled with shame instead of glory: drink thou also, and fall fast asleep: the cup of the right hand of the Lord shall compass thee, and shameful vomiting shall be on thy glory.

Malachi 2:3
Behold, I will cast the shoulder to you, and will scatter upon your face the dung of your solemnities, and it shall take you away with it.

Malachi 2:9
Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base before all people, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted persons in the law.

Nahum 3:5
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