Verse 3

Lo, I am pushing away before you the seed, And have scattered dung before your faces, Dung of your festivals, And it hath taken you away with it.

Referenced Verses

  • Nah 3:6 : 6 And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.
  • 1 Kgs 14:10 : 10 `Therefore, lo, I am bringing in evil unto the house of Jeroboam, and have cut off to Jeroboam those sitting on the wall -- shut up and left -- in Israel, and have put away the posterity of the house of Jeroboam, as one putteth away the dung till its consumption;
  • Exod 29:14 : 14 and the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, thou dost burn with fire at the outside of the camp; it `is' a sin-offering.
  • Joel 1:17 : 17 Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.
  • 1 Sam 2:29-30 : 29 Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded `in' My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people? 30 `Therefore -- the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel -- I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.
  • 2 Kgs 9:36-37 : 36 And they turn back, and declare to him, and he saith, `The word of Jehovah it `is', that He spake by the hand of this servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel do the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel, 37 and the carcase of Jezebel hath been as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, that they say not, This `is' Jezebel.'
  • Job 20:7 : 7 As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where `is' he?'
  • Ps 83:10 : 10 They were destroyed at Endor, They were dung for the ground!
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 And have spread them to sun, and to moon, And to all the host of the heavens, that they have loved, And that they have served, And that they have walked after, And that they have sought, And to which they have bowed themselves, They are not gathered, nor buried, They are for dung on the face of the ground.
  • Mal 2:9 : 9 And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.
  • Luke 14:35 : 35 neither for land nor for manure is it fit -- they cast it without. He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.'
  • 1 Cor 4:13 : 13 being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become -- of all things an offscouring -- till now.