Nahum 3:6
4 because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
5 “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
7 Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”
8 Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
- KJV
- And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
- WEB
- I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle.
- ASV
- And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
- DARBY
- And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.
- BLB
- And I will cast upon you abominations and I will treat you with contempt, and I will set you as a spectacle!
- ÅB
- og jeg vil kaste skarn på deg og føre vanære over deg og gjøre deg til et skuespill.
- OTB
- Jeg vil kaste skam over deg
Og gjøre deg foraktet,
Og sette deg opp som et skue. - B1930
- og jeg vil kaste skarn på dig og føre vanære over dig og gjøre dig til et skuespill.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Malachi 2:9
“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
Read in contextPsalms 38:5–7
My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
Read in contextJeremiah 51:37
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
Read in contextJob 9:31
then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
Read in contextNahum 1:14
The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
Read in contextHebrews 10:33
Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.
Read in contextJob 30:8
A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
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