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Nahum 3:6

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

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He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.

you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.

Babylon will be a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn, a place where no one lives.

He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.

therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and will strip you in front of them, and they will see you stark naked.

The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: “You will have no descendants to bear your name. I will destroy the images and idols that are in the temple of your gods. I will prepare your grave, for you are vile.”

You will be filled with shame instead of glory. Now it is your turn! Drink and let your nakedness be exposed! The cup from the Lord’s right hand is coming around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

This is the city of revelry that lived in safety. She said to herself, “I am the one! And there is none besides me.” What a ruin she has become, a lair for wild beasts! All who pass by her scoff and shake their fists.

If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.

“Because of you I will rebuke your descendants; I will smear on your faces the dung from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it.

“So I have caused you to be despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”

when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world—right up to this moment.

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings.

Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.

In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.




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