Nahum 3:6

Douay-Rheims Bible

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Woe to thee, O city of blood, all full of lies and violence: rapine shall not depart from thee. ² The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the neighing horse; and of the running chariot, and of the horsemen coming up, ³ And of the shining sword, and of the glittering spear, and of a multitude slain, and of a grievous destruction: and there is no end of carcasses, and they shall fall down on their dead bodies. ⁴ Because of the multitude of the fornications of the harlot that was beautiful and agreeable, and that made use of witchcraft, that sold nations through her fornications, and families through her witchcrafts. ⁵ Behold 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. ⁶ And I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee, and will make an example of thee. ⁷ And 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?

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
Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?

Genesis 3:2
And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat:

Genesis 3:12
And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

Genesis 3:14
And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

Genesis 3:15
I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.

Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Genesis 6:2
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

Genesis 39:7
And after many days, his mistress cast her eyes on Joseph, and said: Lie with me.

Joshua 7:21
For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment, exceeding good, and two hundred sicles of silver, and a golden rule of fifty sicles: and I coveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in the ground in the midst of my tent, and the silver I covered with the earth that I dug up.

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.