Nahum 3:6

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

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  • Job 9:31 : 31 You would plunge me into a pit, and even my clothes would abhor me.
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt for jackals, a horror and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 So I have also made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law.
  • 1 Cor 4:9 : 9 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 world—to angels as well as to men.
  • Heb 10:33 : 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insults and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.
  • Nah 1:14 : 14 The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: 'Your name will no longer be perpetuated. Out of the house of your gods I will destroy the carved image and the cast idol. I will prepare your grave, for you are vile.'
  • Job 30:8 : 8 They are sons of fools, nameless men, driven out from the land.
  • Job 30:19 : 19 He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
  • Ps 38:5-7 : 5 For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too much for me to bear. 6 My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness. 7 I am bent over and deeply bowed down; all day long I go about mourning.
  • Isa 14:16-19 : 16 Those who see you will stare at you; they will contemplate you, saying, 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble and shook the kingdoms?' 17 Who made the world a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to release his prisoners to their homes?' 18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb, 19 but you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trampled underfoot.
  • Zeph 2:15 : 15 This is the jubilant city that dwelled securely and said in her heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.' How she has become a desolation, a resting place for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you do not listen and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name, says the Lord of Hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not take it to heart.
  • Lam 3:16 : 16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes.
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desires, serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
  • 1 Cor 4:13 : 13 When we are slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the scum of the earth, the refuse of all, even until now.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. Israel will then become a proverb and an object of ridicule among all peoples. 8 And this temple, now exalted, will become a heap of ruins. Everyone who passes by it will be appalled and will hiss, saying, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land and this temple?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 7 Everyone who sees you will flee from you, saying, 'Nineveh is devastated! Who will mourn for her? Where can I find anyone to comfort you?'

  • 5 Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts. I will lift up your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame.

  • 26 So I will expose your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.

  • Ezek 5:14-15
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    79%

    14 I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

    15 You will be a reproach, a mockery, a warning, and a horror to the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and furious rebukes! I, the LORD, have spoken.

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    36 This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children you gave to them,

    37 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 every side, and I will expose your nakedness to them, so they may see all your shame.

    38 I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood. I will bring upon you the wrath and jealousy of my judgment.

    39 I will deliver you into their hands, and they will tear down your mounds and demolish your high places. They will strip you of your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

  • 3 Behold, I will rebuke your descendants and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your feasts, and it will be carried away with you.

  • 3 Your nakedness will be uncovered, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.

  • Ezek 5:8-9
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    77%

    8 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I Myself am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

    9 Because of all your abominations, I will do what I have never done before and will never do again.

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    57 before your own wickedness was exposed, like the time you were taunted by the daughters of Aram and all her neighbors, and by the daughters of the Philistines, who looked down on you from every side.

    58 You have borne the penalty of your lewdness and abominations, declares the LORD.

  • 14 The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: 'Your name will no longer be perpetuated. Out of the house of your gods I will destroy the carved image and the cast idol. I will prepare your grave, for you are vile.'

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    29 They will deal with you in hatred, take away all you have worked for, and leave you naked and bare. The shame of your prostitution will be exposed—your lewdness and promiscuity.

    30 These things will be done to you because you prostituted yourself to the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

  • 13 Therefore, I have begun to strike you and make you desolate because of your sins.

  • 8 I will make this city desolate and an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.

  • Jer 23:39-40
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    76%

    39 therefore I will surely forget you and cast you out of My presence along with the city I gave to you and your fathers.

    40 I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame that will never be forgotten.

  • 15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you throughout the lands, and I will cleanse you from your impurity.

  • 8 'I am about to pour out my wrath upon you and exhaust my anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and bring upon you all your detestable practices.'

  • 31 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are. Exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.

  • Isa 22:17-19
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    17 Behold, the LORD is about to hurl you away violently, O strong man! He will wrap you up tightly.

    18 He will surely roll you into a ball and hurl you into a vast land. There you will die, and your splendid chariots will become a disgrace to your master's house.

    19 I will depose you from your office, and you will be ousted from your position.

  • 13 Because of your unclean behavior and wickedness, though I tried to cleanse you, you would not be clean. You will not be cleansed again until I have satisfied my wrath upon you.

  • Lev 26:30-32
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    30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and my soul will reject you.

    31 I will lay your cities in ruins, make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will no longer smell the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

    32 I will bring the land to desolation so that even your enemies who live there will be appalled by it.

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    18 By your many sins and your dishonest trade, you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I brought fire out from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all those watching.

    19 All the nations who knew you are appalled at you; you have come to a terrible end and will exist no more forever.

  • Ezek 7:3-4
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    3 'Now the end is upon you, and I will unleash my anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and bring upon you all your detestable practices.'

    4 'I will not look on you with pity or spare you. I will repay you for your conduct and your detestable practices among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'

  • 26 I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another land where neither of you were born—and there you will both die.

  • 5 Those near and those far from you will mock you, you who are defiled in name and full of turmoil.

  • 16 You have followed the statutes of Omri and all the practices of the house of Ahab; you have walked in their counsels. Therefore, I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of scorn; you will bear the reproach of My people.

  • 8 Because of this, I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like jackals and mourn like ostriches.

  • 26 They will strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewelry.

  • Lam 1:8-9
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    73%

    8 Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

    9 Her uncleanness clings to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. "Look, LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed."

  • 13 He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria, leaving Nineveh utterly desolate, as dry as the desert.

  • 7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.

  • 30 They will mourn over you with loud cries, bitterly wailing, throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes.

  • 43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will bring your conduct down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your other detestable acts?

  • 17 I will bring distress on mankind, and they will walk like the blind because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

  • 41 They will burn down your houses and execute judgment on you in the sight of many women. I will bring an end to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay fees to anyone.

  • 9 I will trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring about your ruin among the nations, in lands you do not know.