Nahum 3:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will cast abominable things at you and make you filthy, treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock. American Standard Version (1901) And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock. Common English Bible I will throw disgusting things at you; I will treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will cast abominations over you, and I will afflict you with abuse, and I will make an example of you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee, and will make an example of thee. |
A senseless, disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land.
and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a den of jackals, an object of horror and of hissing, without inhabitant.
therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated; I will gather them against you from all around and will uncover your nakedness to them so that they may see all your nakedness.
The Lord has commanded concerning you: Your name shall be perpetuated no longer; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the cast image. I will prepare your grave, for you are worthless.
You will be sated with contempt instead of glory. Drink, you yourself, and stagger! The cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you, and shame will come upon your glory!
Is this the exultant city that lived secure, that said to itself, “I am, and there is no one else”? What a desolation it has become, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by it hisses and shakes the fist.
If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not lay it to heart.
I will rebuke your offspring and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and I will put you out of my presence.
so I make you despised and humbled before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.
when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day.
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to humans.
sometimes being publicly exposed to insults and afflictions and sometimes becoming partners with those so treated.
Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.