Nahum 3:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I will cover you with rubbish, treat you like trash, and rub you in the dirt.

Cross References

Job 30:19

I have been thrown in the dirt and now am dirt myself.

Job 30:8

And like senseless donkeys they are chased away.

Job 9:31

God would throw me into a pit of stinking slime, leaving me disgusting to my clothes.

Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon will be a pile of rubble where only jackals live. People will laugh, but they will be afraid to walk among the ruins.

Lamentations 3:16

He made me eat gravel and rubbed me in the earth.

Ezekiel 16:37

So I, the LORD God, will gather every one of your lovers, those you liked and those you hated. They will stand around you, and I will rip off your clothes and let all those lovers stare at your nakedness.

Nahum 1:14

Assyria, this is what else the LORD says to you: “Your name will be forgotten. I will destroy every idol in your temple, and I will send you to the grave, because you are worthless.”

Habakkuk 2:16

Now you will be disgraced instead of praised. The LORD will make you drunk, and when others see you naked, you will lose their respect.

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the glorious city that felt secure and said, “I am the only one!” Now it's merely ruins, a home for wild animals. Every passer-by simply sneers and makes vulgar signs.

Malachi 2:2

You had better take seriously the need to honour my name. Otherwise, when you give a blessing, I will turn it into a curse. In fact, I have already done this, because you haven't taken to heart your duties as priests.

Malachi 2:3

I will punish your descendants and rub your faces in the manure from your animal sacrifices, and then be done with you.

Malachi 2:9

So I caused everyone to hate and despise you, because you disobeyed me and failed to treat all people alike.

1 Corinthians 4:13

When someone curses us, we answer with kind words. Until now we are thought of as nothing more than the trash and rubbish of this world.

1 Corinthians 4:9

It seems to me that God has put us apostles in the worst possible place. We are like prisoners on their way to death. Angels and the people of this world just laugh at us.

Hebrews 10:33

Sometimes you were abused and ill-treated in public, and at other times you shared in the sufferings of others.

Jude 1:7

We should also be warned by what happened to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns. Their people became immoral and did all sorts of sexual sins. Then God made an example of them and punished them with eternal fire.