Parallel Verses
King James 2000
And I will cast abominable filth upon you, and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle.
New American Standard Bible
And
And set you up as a
King James Version
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
Holman Bible
and treat you with contempt;
I will make a spectacle of you.
International Standard Version
I will hurl abominable filth upon you, making you look foolish, and making an example of you.
A Conservative Version
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
American Standard Version
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
Amplified
“I will throw filth on you
And make you vile and treat you with contempt,
And set you up as a spectacle.
Bible in Basic English
I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.
Darby Translation
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.
Julia Smith Translation
And I cast abominable things upon thee, and I disgraced thee, and I set thee as a sight
Lexham Expanded Bible
"I will throw filth upon you, I will treat you with contempt, I will make you a spectacle.
Modern King James verseion
And I will cast filth upon you, and will dishonor you, and will set you as a gazing-stock.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will cast dirt upon thee, to make thee be abhorred, and a gazing stock.
NET Bible
I will pelt you with filth; I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle.
New Heart English Bible
I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
The Emphasized Bible
And I will cast upon thee abominable filth, and treat thee as foolish, - and set thee as a gazing-stock.
Webster
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
World English Bible
I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.
Interlinear
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References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 3:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Harlot Nineveh Will Get What She Deserves
5 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts; and I will uncover your skirts over your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. 6 And I will cast abominable filth upon you, and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle. 7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon you shall flee from you, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? where shall I seek comforters for you?
Cross References
Job 9:31
Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become a heap, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
Malachi 2:9
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
Job 30:8
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Nahum 1:14
And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you: No more shall your name be perpetuated: out of the house of your gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make your grave; for you are vile.
1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Hebrews 10:33
Partly, while you were made a public display both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while you became companions of them that were so used.
1 Kings 9:7-8
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
Job 30:19
He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Psalm 38:5-7
My wounds are foul and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
Isaiah 14:16-19
They that see you shall gaze upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
Lamentations 3:16
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the rejoicing city that dwelt securely, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! everyone that passes by her shall hiss, and shake his fist.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the trash of all things unto this day.
Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after unnatural lust, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.