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Nahum 3:6

I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle.

Nahum 3:6 · World English Bible

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Nahum 3:6 in other translations

KJV King James Version

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

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

NHEB New Heart English Bible

I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

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In context

3 the horseman charging, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies

4 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

5 “Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

6 I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle.

7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

8 Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.

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