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Nahum 3:6

New American Bible - revised edition

I will cast filth upon you, disgrace you and make you a spectacle;

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He has cast me into the mire; I have become like dust and ashes.

Irresponsible, of no account, they were driven out of the land.

Yet you would plunge me in the ditch, so that my garments would abhor me.

Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; A place of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

He has made me eat gravel, trampled me into the dust;

therefore, I will now gather together all your lovers with whom you found pleasure, both those you loved and those you hated; I will gather them against you from all sides and expose you naked for them to see.

The Lord has commanded regarding you: no descendant will again bear your name; From the house of your gods I will abolish the carved and the molten image; I will make your grave a dung heap.

You are filled with shame instead of glory; drink, you too, and stagger! The cup from the Lord’s right hand shall come around to you, and utter shame shall cover your glory.

Is this the exultant city that dwelt secure, That told itself, “I and there is no one else”? How it has become a waste, a lair for wild animals! Those who pass by it hiss, and shake their fists!

And if you do not take to heart giving honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, I will send a curse upon you and your blessing I will curse. In fact, I have already cursed it, because you do not take it to heart.

I will rebuke your offspring; I will spread dung on your faces, Dung from your feasts, and will carry you to it.

I, therefore, have made you contemptible and base before all the people, For you do not keep my ways, but show partiality in your instruction.

when slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the world’s rubbish, the scum of all, to this very moment.

For as I see it, God has exhibited us apostles as the last of all, like people sentenced to death, since we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and human beings alike.

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and affliction; at other times you associated yourselves with those so treated.

Likewise, Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding towns, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual promiscuity and practiced unnatural vice, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.




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