Nahum 3:6

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Nahum 3:6

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Berean Standard Bible

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

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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Nahum 3

⁴ because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.

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

⁶ I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.

⁷ Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”

⁸ Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?

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