Nahum 3:6

"“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."

Key Reflection

This passage signifies God's judgment on a nation, symbolized here as Nineveh, lifting their cover to expose their sins publicly. It emphasizes divine retribution and the stark unveiling of one’s moral nakedness to both nations and kingdoms, highlighting the severity of God's wrath against wickedness.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee -Alb.: “like a weight, that what thou wouldest not take heed to as sin, thou mayest feel in punishment.” “Abominable things had God seen”Jeremiah 13:27in her doings; with abominable things would he punish her. Man would fain sin, and forget it as a thing past. “God maketh him to possess the iniquities of his youth”Job 13:26, and binds them around him, so that they make him to appear what they are, “vile” (compare Wisd. 4:18), “These things hast thou done and I kept silence; - I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes.

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