Nahum 3:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 9:31 : 31 then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives.
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 “Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction.”
  • 1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
  • Heb 10:33 : 33 At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.
  • Nah 1:14 : 14 Oracle of Judgment against the King of Nineveh The LORD has issued a decree against you:“Your dynasty will come to an end. I will destroy the idols and images in the temples of your gods. I will desecrate your grave– because you are accursed!”
  • Job 30:8 : 8 Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.
  • Job 30:19 : 19 He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
  • Ps 38:5-7 : 5 My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins. 6 I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning. 7 For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick.
  • Isa 14:16-19 : 16 Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking:“Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble? 17 Is this the one who made the world like a wilderness, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’ 18 As for all the kings of the nations, all of them lie down in splendor, each in his own tomb. 19 But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the Pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.
  • Zeph 2:15 : 15 This is how the once-proud city will end up– the city that was so secure. She thought to herself,“I am unique! No one can compare to me!” What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live! Everyone who passes by her taunts her and shakes his fist.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses– indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.
  • Lam 3:16 : 16 ו(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
  • 1 Cor 4:13 : 13 when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations. 8 This temple will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn, saying,‘Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?’

Similar Verses (AI)

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    7Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say,‘Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?’ There will be no one to comfort you!”

  • Nah 3:5
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    5I am against you,” declares the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“I will strip off your clothes! I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms;

  • Jer 13:26
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    26So I will pull your skirt up over your face and expose you to shame like a disgraced adulteress!

  • Ezek 5:14-15
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    14“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

    15You will be an object of scorn and taunting, a prime example of destruction among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken!

  • Ezek 16:36-39
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    36This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered in your prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children you have given to them,

    37therefore, take note: I am about to gather all your lovers whom you enjoyed, both all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around, and I will expose your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness.

    38I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage.

    39I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.

  • Mal 2:3
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    3I am about to discipline your children and will spread offal on your faces, the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it.

  • Isa 47:3
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    3Let your naked body be exposed! Your shame will be on display! I will get revenge; I will not have pity on anyone,”

  • Ezek 5:8-9
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    8“Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I– even I– am against you, and I will execute judgment among you while the nations watch.

    9I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices.

  • Ezek 16:57-58
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    57before your evil was exposed? Now you have become an object of scorn to the daughters of Aram and all those around her and to the daughters of the Philistines– those all around you who despise you.

    58You must bear your punishment for your obscene conduct and your abominable practices, declares the LORD.

  • Nah 1:14
    76%

    14Oracle of Judgment against the King of Nineveh The LORD has issued a decree against you:“Your dynasty will come to an end. I will destroy the idols and images in the temples of your gods. I will desecrate your grave– because you are accursed!”

  • Ezek 23:29-30
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    29They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for, and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct.

    30I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

  • Mic 6:13
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    13I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

  • Jer 19:8
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    8I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.

  • Jer 23:39-40
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    39So I will carry you far off and throw you away. I will send both you and the city I gave to you and to your ancestors out of my sight.

    40I will bring on you lasting shame and lasting disgrace which will never be forgotten!’”

  • Ezek 22:15
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    15I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.

  • Ezek 7:8
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    8Soon now I will pour out my rage on you; I will fully vent my anger against you. I will judge you according to your behavior. I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices.

  • Ezek 21:31
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    31I will pour out my anger on you; the fire of my fury I will blow on you. I will hand you over to brutal men, who are skilled in destruction.

  • Isa 22:17-19
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    17Look, the LORD will throw you far away, you mere man! He will wrap you up tightly.

    18He will wind you up tightly into a ball and throw you into a wide, open land. There you will die, and there with you will be your impressive chariots, which bring disgrace to the house of your master.

    19I will remove you from your office; you will be thrown down from your position.

  • Ezek 24:13
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    13You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. I tried to cleanse you, but you are not clean. You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness until I have exhausted my anger on you.

  • Lev 26:30-32
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    30I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

    31I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

    32I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

  • Ezek 28:18-19
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    18By the multitude of your iniquities, through the sinfulness of your trade, you desecrated your sanctuaries. So I drew fire out from within you; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth before the eyes of all who saw you.

    19All who know you among the peoples are shocked at you; you have become terrified and will be no more.’”

  • Ezek 7:3-4
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    3The end is now upon you, and I will release my anger against you; I will judge you according to your behavior, I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices.

    4My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that I am the LORD!

  • Jer 22:26
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    26I will force you and your mother who gave you birth into exile. You will be exiled to a country where neither of you were born, and you will both die there.

  • Ezek 22:5
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    5Those both near and far from you will mock you, you with your bad reputation, full of turmoil.

  • Mic 6:16
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    16You follow Omri’s edicts, and all the practices of Ahab’s dynasty; you follow their policies. Therefore I will make you an appalling sight, the city’s inhabitants will be taunted derisively, and nations will mock all of you.”

  • Mic 1:8
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    8For this reason I will mourn and wail; I will walk around barefoot and without my outer garments. I will howl like a wild dog, and screech like an owl.

  • Ezek 23:26
    73%

    26They will strip your clothes off you and take away your beautiful jewelry.

  • Lam 1:8-9
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    8ח(Khet) Jerusalem committed terrible sin; therefore she became an object of scorn. All who admired her have despised her because they have seen her nakedness. She groans aloud and turns away in shame.

    9ט(Tet) Her menstrual flow has soiled her clothing; she did not consider the consequences of her sin. Her demise was astonishing, and there was no one to comfort her. She cried,“Look, O LORD, on my affliction because my enemy boasts!”

  • Zeph 2:13
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    13The LORD will attack the north and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a heap of ruins; it will be as barren as the desert.

  • Ezek 28:7
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    7I am about to bring foreigners against you, the most terrifying of nations. They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;

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    43“‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, declares the Sovereign LORD. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?

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    17I will bring distress on the people and they will stumble like blind men, for they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dirt; their flesh will be scattered like manure.

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    41They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients.

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    9I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.