Nahum 3:6

Nahum chapter 3 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.

Context

v.5Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

v.6This passage

v.7And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 51:37

    And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

  • Job 30:19

    He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • Psalms 38:5

    My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.

  • Isaiah 14:16

    They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

  • Jude 1:7

    Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

  • Hebrews 10:33

    partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used.