Parallel Verses
World English Bible
I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 3:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Harlot Nineveh Will Get What She Deserves
5 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. 6 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle. 7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"
Cross References
Job 9:31
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Malachi 2:9
"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
Job 30:8
They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.
Nahum 1:14
Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."
1 Corinthians 4:9
For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
Hebrews 10:33
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
1 Kings 9:7-8
then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Job 30:19
He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
Psalm 38:5-7
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
Isaiah 14:16-19
Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;
Lamentations 3:16
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Armies, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.