Nahum 3:7

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

Key Reflection

This verse metaphorically describes divine judgment, where God intends to expose the wickedness of Nineveh by casting upon it what is detestable and abominable, thereby making it an object of shame and public humiliation, serving as a warning to others. Through such punishment, God aims to bring about a sense of revulsion and repentance among the inhabitants.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

All they that look upon thee shall flee from thee -through terror, lest they should share her plagues, as Israel did, when the earth swallowed up Korah, Dathan and Abiram; and they who “had been made rich by Babylon, stand ajar off, for the fear of her torment. All they who look on thee”Revelation 18:15. She was set as a thing to be “gazed at.” He tells the effect on the gazers. “Each one who so gazed” at her should flee; one by one, they should gaze, be scared, flee (comparePsalms 31:11;Psalms 64:8). Not one should remain. “Who will bemoan her?” Not one should pay her the passing tribute of sympathy at human calamity, the shaking of the head at her woe (compareJob 16:4-5).

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