Nahum 3:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.”
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“I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Nahum 3:6 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
- Job 9:31then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
- Job 30:8A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
- Job 30:19He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
- Isaiah 14:16Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
- Jeremiah 51:37Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
- Lamentations 3:16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
- Nahum 1:14The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
- Zephaniah 2:15This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
- Malachi 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
- Malachi 2:3Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.
- Malachi 2:9“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
- 1 Corinthians 4:9For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
- 1 Corinthians 4:13when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
- Hebrews 10:33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.
- Jude 1:7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
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