Nahum 3:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I will throw filth on you and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Foolish men, without even a name. They were forced to leave the land.
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den, a desolation and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.
I am therefore going to gather all the lovers you pleased #– #all those you loved as well as all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose your nakedness to them so that they see you completely naked.
The Lord has issued an order concerning you: There will be no offspring to carry on your name. , I will eliminate the carved idol and cast image from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.
You will be filled with disgrace instead of glory. You also #– #drink, and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory.
This is the jubilant city that lives in security, that says to herself: I exist, and there is no one else. What a desolation she has become, a place for wild animals to lie down! Everyone who passes by her scoffs and shakes his fist.
If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart to honour my name,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.
‘Look, I am going to rebuke your descendants, and I will spread animal waste over your faces, the waste from your festival sacrifices, and you will be taken away with it.
‘So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people because you are not keeping my ways but are showing partiality in your instruction.’
when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the scum of the earth, like everyone’s rubbish.
For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way.
Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.