Nahum 3:6

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.

Parallel Translations

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 (1611)
And I will cast abominable filth vpon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stocke.

King James Version
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

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

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.

Amplified Bible
"I will throw filth on you And make you vile and treat you with contempt, And set you up as a spectacle.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will cast filth vpon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gasing stocke.

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.

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.

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.

George Lamsa Translation
And I will cast filth upon you and disgrace you, and will make you a spectacle,

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

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.

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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will cast detestable things upon thee, and make thee vile, and will make thee as dung.

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.

English Revised Version
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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:

Contextual Overview

¹ It will be very bad for that city of murderers. Nineveh is a city full of lies. It is filled with things taken from other countries. It is filled with plenty of people that it hunted and killed. ² You can hear the sounds of whips and the noise of wheels. You can hear horses galloping and chariots bouncing along! ³ Soldiers on horses are attacking, their swords are shining, their spears are gleaming! There are many dead people. Dead bodies are piled up—too many bodies to count. People are tripping over the dead bodies. ⁴ All this happened because of Nineveh. Nineveh is like a prostitute who could never get enough. She wanted more and more. She sold herself to many nations, and she used her magic to make them her slaves. ⁵ The Lord All-Powerful says, "I am against you, Nineveh. I will pull your dress up over your face. I will let the nations see your naked body. The kingdoms will see your shame. ⁶ I will throw dirty things on you and treat you in a hateful way. People will look at you and laugh. ⁷ Everyone who sees you will be shocked. They will say, ‘Nineveh is destroyed. Who will cry for her?' I know I cannot find anyone to comfort you, Nineveh."

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 snake was the most clever of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. The snake spoke to the woman and said, "Woman, did God really tell you that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?"

Genesis 3:2
The woman answered the snake, "No, we can eat fruit from the trees in the garden.

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman you put here with me gave me fruit from that tree. So I ate it."

Genesis 3:14
So the Lord God said to the snake, "You did this very bad thing, so bad things will happen to you. It will be worse for you than for any other animal. You must crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. You will bite her child's foot, but he will crush your head."

Genesis 3:17
Then God said to the man, "I commanded you not to eat from that tree. But you listened to your wife and ate from it. So I will curse the ground because of you. You will have to work hard all your life for the food the ground produces.

Genesis 3:19
You will work hard for your food, until your face is covered with sweat. You will work hard until the day you die, and then you will become dust again. I used dust to make you, and when you die, you will become dust again."

Genesis 39:7
After some time, the wife of Joseph's master began to pay special attention to him. One day she said to him, "Sleep with me."

Joshua 7:21
In Jericho, I saw a beautiful coat from Babylonia, about 5 pounds of silver, and about a pound of gold. I wanted these things for myself, so I took them. You will find them buried in the ground under my tent. The silver is under the coat."

2 Samuel 11:2
One evening he got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his house. From there he saw a woman bathing. She was very beautiful,

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.