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New Living Translation

Nahum 3:6

I will cover you with filth and show the world how vile you really are.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Paganism;   Whoredom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Nineveh;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Assyria;   Nahum;   Nineveh;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nahum;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Assyria;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gazing-Stock;   Nahum, the Book of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abomination;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I will throw dirty things on you and treat you in a hateful way. People will look at you and laugh.
New American Standard Bible
"I will throw filth on you And declare you worthless, And set you up as a spectacle.
New Century Version
I will throw filthy garbage on you and make a fool of you. I will make people stare at you.
Update Bible Version
And I will cast detestable things on you, and make you vile, and will set you as a gazing-stock.
Webster's Bible Translation
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
Amplified Bible
"I will throw filth on you And make you vile and treat you with contempt, And set you up as a spectacle.
English Standard Version
I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.
World English Bible
I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal cast out on thee thin abhomynaciouns, and Y schal punysche thee with dispitis, and Y schal putte thee in to ensaumple.
English Revised Version
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
Berean Standard Bible
I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
Contemporary English Version
I will cover you with garbage, treat you like trash, and rub you in the dirt.
American Standard Version
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
Bible in Basic English
I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will pelt you with disgusting filth, disgrace you and make a spectacle of you.
Darby Translation
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will cast detestable things upon thee, and make thee vile, and will make thee as dung.
King James Version (1611)
And I will cast abominable filth vpon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stocke.
New Life Bible
I will throw dirt on you and make you unclean. People will look at you and see how bad you are.
New Revised Standard
I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a spectacle.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will cast filth vpon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gasing stocke.
George Lamsa Translation
And I will cast filth upon you and disgrace you, and will make you a spectacle,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And I will cast upon thee abominable filth, and treat thee as foolish, - and set thee as a gazing-stock.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee, and will make an example of thee.
Revised Standard Version
I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And will cast vpon thee abominable filth, and wil bring thee downe, and wil make thee as vile as doung.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee according to thine unclean ways, and will make thee a public example.
Good News Translation
I will treat you with contempt and cover you with filth. People will stare at you in horror.
Christian Standard Bible®
I will throw filth on youand treat you with contempt;I will make a spectacle of you.
Hebrew Names Version
I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
King James Version
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
Lexham English Bible
"I will throw filth upon you, I will treat you with contempt, I will make you a spectacle.
Literal Translation
And I will cast filth on you and will disgrace you. And I will set you as a spectacle.
Young's Literal Translation
And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil cast dyrte vpon ye, to make the be abhorred, and a gasynge stocke:
New English Translation
I will pelt you with filth; I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle.
New King James Version
I will cast abominable filth upon you, Make you vile, And make you a spectacle.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will throw filth on you And make you vile, And set you up as a spectacle.
Legacy Standard Bible
I will throw detestable filth on youAnd display you as a wicked foolAnd set you up as a spectacle.

Contextual Overview

1 What sorrow awaits Nineveh, the city of murder and lies! She is crammed with wealth and is never without victims. 2 Hear the crack of whips, the rumble of wheels! Horses' hooves pound, and chariots clatter wildly. 3 See the flashing swords and glittering spears as the charioteers charge past! There are countless casualties, heaps of bodies— so many bodies that people stumble over them. 4 All this because Nineveh, the beautiful and faithless city, mistress of deadly charms, enticed the nations with her beauty. She taught them all her magic, enchanting people everywhere. 5 "I am your enemy!" says the Lord of Heaven's Armies. "And now I will lift your skirts and show all the earth your nakedness and shame. 6 I will cover you with filth and show the world how vile you really are. 7 All who see you will shrink back and say, ‘Nineveh lies in ruins. Where are the mourners?' Does anyone regret your destruction?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will cast: Job 9:31, Job 30:19, Psalms 38:5-7, Lamentations 3:16, Malachi 2:2, 1 Corinthians 4:13

make: Nahum 1:14, Job 30:8, Malachi 2:9

will set: 1 Kings 9:7, 1 Kings 9:8, Isaiah 14:16-19, Jeremiah 51:37, Zephaniah 2:15, 1 Corinthians 4:9, Hebrews 10:33, Jude 1:7

Reciprocal: Isaiah 47:2 - make bare Ezekiel 13:8 - behold Ezekiel 16:37 - General Malachi 2:3 - spread Luke 15:15 - to feed

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, "Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?"
Genesis 3:2
"Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden," the woman replied.
Genesis 3:12
The man replied, "It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:14
Then the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live.
Genesis 3:15
And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."
Genesis 3:17
And to the man he said, "Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return."
Genesis 6:2
The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives.
Genesis 39:7
and Potiphar's wife soon began to look at him lustfully. "Come and sleep with me," she demanded.
Joshua 7:21
Among the plunder I saw a beautiful robe from Babylon, 200 silver coins, and a bar of gold weighing more than a pound. I wanted them so much that I took them. They are hidden in the ground beneath my tent, with the silver buried deeper than the rest."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee,.... As dirt and dung, or any or everything that is abominable and filthy; and which is thrown at harlots publicly disgraced, and as used to be at persons when carted. The meaning is, that this city and its inhabitants should be stripped of everything that was great and glorious in them, and should be reduced to the utmost shame and ignominy:

and make thee vile: mean, abject, contemptible, the offscouring of all things; rejected and disesteemed of all; had in no manner of repute or account, but in the utmost abhorrence:

and I will set thee as a gazingstock; to be looked and laughed at: or, "for an example" e; to others, that they may shun the evils and abominations Nineveh had been guilty of, or expect the same disgrace and punishment. Kimchi interprets it "as dung" f; to be no more reckoned of than that, or to be made a dunghill of; and so many others interpret it; or, "for a looking glass" g; that others may look into, and take warning, and avoid the sins that have brought on such calamities.

e כרואי εις παραδειγμα, Sept.; "in exemplum", Drusius, Tarnovius; "sicut spectacalum", Burkius. f "Tanquam stercus", Munster, Montanus, Vatablus, Calvin, Cocceius. g "Ut speculum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Quistorpius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee - Alb.: “like a weight, that what thou wouldest not take heed to as sin, thou mayest feel in punishment.” “Abominable things had God seen” Jeremiah 13:27 in her doings; with abominable things would he punish her. Man would fain sin, and forget it as a thing past. “God maketh him to possess the iniquities of his youth” Job 13:26, and binds them around him, so that they make him to appear what they are, “vile” (compare Wisd. 4:18), “These things hast thou done and I kept silence; - I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes. And will set thee as a gazing-stock” Psalms 50:21, that all, while they gaze at thee, take warning from thee (compare 2 Chronicles 7:20). “I will cast thee to the ground; before kings will I give thee, for them to gaze upon thee” Ezekiel 28:17. : “Whoever does not amend on occasion of others, others shall be amended on occasion of him.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 6. I will cast abominable filth upon thee — I will set thee as a gazing-stock. This was a punishment precisely like our pillory. They put such women in the pillory as a gazing-stock; and then, children and others threw mud, dirt, and filth of all kinds at them.


 
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