6I will pelt you with filth, I will treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.


In Context

3 Charging cavalry, flashing swords and glittering spears! Many casualties, piles of dead, bodies without number, people stumbling over the corpses-

4 all because of the wanton lust of a harlot, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft.

5 "I am against you," declares the Lord Almighty. "I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame.

6 I will pelt you with filth, I will treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.

7 All who see you will flee from you and say, 'Nineveh is in ruins-who will mourn for her?' Where can I find anyone to comfort you?"

8 Are you better than Thebes, situated on the Nile, with water around her? The river was her defense, the waters her wall.

Nahum 3:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:6And I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee, and will make an example of thee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:6And I will cast abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you as a spectacle.