Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
And
And set you up as a
King James Version
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
Holman Bible
and treat you with contempt;
I will make a spectacle of you.
International Standard Version
I will hurl abominable filth upon you, making you look foolish, and making an example of you.
A Conservative Version
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
American Standard Version
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
Amplified
“I will throw filth on you
And make you vile and treat you with contempt,
And set you up as a spectacle.
Darby Translation
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.
Julia Smith Translation
And I cast abominable things upon thee, and I disgraced thee, and I set thee as a sight
King James 2000
And I will cast abominable filth upon you, and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"I will throw filth upon you, I will treat you with contempt, I will make you a spectacle.
Modern King James verseion
And I will cast filth upon you, and will dishonor you, and will set you as a gazing-stock.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will cast dirt upon thee, to make thee be abhorred, and a gazing stock.
NET Bible
I will pelt you with filth; I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle.
New Heart English Bible
I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
The Emphasized Bible
And I will cast upon thee abominable filth, and treat thee as foolish, - and set thee as a gazing-stock.
Webster
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
World English Bible
I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.
Interlinear
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References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 3:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Harlot Nineveh Will Get What She Deserves
5 See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your skirts pulled over your face, and let the nations see you unclothed, and the kingdoms your shame. 6 I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all. 7 And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?
Cross References
Job 9:31
Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.
Malachi 2:9
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
Job 30:8
They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.
Nahum 1:14
The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.
1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men.
Hebrews 10:33
In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way.
1 Kings 9:7-8
Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.
Job 30:19
Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
Isaiah 14:16-19
Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?
Lamentations 3:16
By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.
1 Corinthians 4:13
When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.
Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.