Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will cast dirt upon thee, to make thee be abhorred, and a gazing stock.
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.
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.
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.
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 Behold, I will upon thee, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, and will pull thy clothes over thy head: that I may show thy nakedness among the Heathen, and thy shame among the kingdoms. 6 I will cast dirt upon thee, to make thee be abhorred, and a gazing stock. 7 Yea, all they that look upon thee shall start back, and say, "Nineveh is destroyed!" Who will have pity upon thee? Where shall I seek one to comfort thee?
Cross References
Job 9:31
yet shouldest thou dip me in the mire, and mine own clothes should defile me.
Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon shall become a heap of stones, a dwelling place for dragons, a fearfulness and wondering, because no man dwelleth there.
Malachi 2:9
Therefore will I also make you to be despised, and to be of no reputation among all the people: because ye have not kept my ways, but been partial in the law.
Job 30:8
They were children of fools and villains, which are dead away from the world.
Nahum 1:14
But the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that there shall come no more seed of thy name. The carved and casten Images will I root out of the house of thy God. Thy grave shall I prepare for thee, and thou shalt be confounded.
1 Corinthians 4:9
Me thinketh that God hath set forth us, which are apostles, for the lowest of all: as it were, men appointed to death. For we are a gazingstock unto the world, and to the angels, and to men.
Hebrews 10:33
partly while all men wondered and gazed at you for the shame and tribulation that was done unto you, and partly while ye became companions of them which so passed their time.
1 Kings 9:7-8
then I will weed Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house which I have hallowed for my name, I will put out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a fable unto all nations.
Job 30:19
I am even as it were clay, and am become like ashes and dust.
Psalm 38:5-7
My wounds stink, and are corrupt, through my foolishness.
Isaiah 14:16-19
They that seek thee, shall narrowly look upon thee, and think in themselves, saying, "Is this the man, that brought all lands in fear, and made the kingdoms afraid?
Lamentations 3:16
{Vav} He hath smitten my teeth in pieces, and rolled me in the dust.
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the proud and careless city, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is else none." O how is she made so waste, that the beasts lie therein? Whoso goeth by, mocketh her, and pointeth at her with his finger.
Malachi 2:2
If ye will not hear it, nor regard it, to give the glory unto my name, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and will curse your blessings. Yea, curse them will I if ye do not take heed.
1 Corinthians 4:13
We are evil spoken of, and we pray. We are made as it were the filthiness of the world, the offscouring of all things, even unto this time.
Jude 1:7
even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them - which in like manner defiled themselves, with fornication, and followed strange flesh - are set forth for an example, and suffer the vengeance of eternal fire.