Nahum 3:6

New International Reader's Version

I will throw garbage at you. I will look down on you. I will make an example out of you.

Cross References

Job 30:19

He throws me down into the mud. I’m nothing but dust and ashes.

Job 30:8

They were so foolish that no one respected them. They were driven out of the land.

Job 9:31

Even then you would throw me into a muddy pit. And even my clothes would hate me.

Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon will have all its buildings knocked down. It will be a home for wild dogs. No one will live there. People will be shocked at it. They will make fun of it.

Lamentations 3:16

He made me chew stones that broke my teeth. He has walked all over me in the dust.

Ezekiel 16:37

So I am going to gather together all the lovers you found pleasure with. They include those you loved and those you hated. I will gather them against you from everywhere. I will take your clothes off right in front of them. Then they will see you completely naked.

Nahum 1:14

Nineveh, the Lord has given an order concerning you. He has said, “You will not have any children to carry on your name. I will destroy the wooden and metal statues that are in the temple of your gods. I will get your grave ready for you. You are worthless.”

Habakkuk 2:16

But the Babylonians will be filled with shame instead of glory. So now it is their turn to drink and be stripped of their clothes. The cup of anger in my powerful right hand is going to punish them. They will be covered with shame instead of glory.

Zephaniah 2:15

Nineveh was a carefree city. It lived in safety. It said to itself, “I am the one! No one is greater than I am.” But it has been destroyed. Wild animals make their home there. All those who pass by laugh and shake their fists at it.

Malachi 2:2

Listen to it. Honor me with all your heart,” says the Lord who rules over all. “If you do not, I will send a curse on you. I will turn your blessings into curses. In fact, I have already done that because you have not honored me with all your heart.

Malachi 2:3

“Because of what you have done, I will punish your children. I will smear the waste from your sacrifices on your faces. And you will be carried off to the dump along with it.

Malachi 2:9

“So I have caused all the people to hate you. They have lost respect for you. You have not done what I told you to do. Instead, you have favored one person over another in matters of the law.”

1 Corinthians 4:13

When others say bad things about us, we answer with kind words. We have become the world’s garbage. We are everybody’s trash, right up to this moment.

1 Corinthians 4:9

It seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of a parade. We are like people sentenced to die in front of a crowd. We have been made a show for the whole creation to see. Angels and people are staring at us.

Hebrews 10:33

Sometimes people spoke badly about you in front of others. Sometimes you were treated badly. At other times you stood side by side with people being treated like this.

Jude 1:7

The people of Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns around them also did evil things. They freely committed sexual sins. They committed sins of the worst possible kind. There is a fire that never goes out. Those people are an example of those who are punished with it.