John Trapp on Nahum 3:6

Verſe 6. And I will caſt abominable filth upon thee] As they do chamber-pots and worſe, upon harlots that are carted. I have read of a heathen people that put the adniterers and adultereſſes heads into the paunch of a beaſt, where all the f[illegible: 2 letters]th lieth; and ſo ſtifled them to death.

And make thee vile] Conſpurcabo, deturpabo to, I will beſpattle thee and make thee ſtink above ground, as lothſome carrion doth; ſo the word ſignifieth. It was long ſince complained of by one of her own ſonnes, that the ſtench of the Church of Rome was gone up to heaven. And by another,Mat. Paris. that of gold ſhe was become ſilver, of ſilver iron, of iron earth, ſupereſſe ut in ſtercus abiret, and now there remained no more, but that ſhe ſhould be looked upon as dung.Theodoricus Vrias Auguſtinianus. Accordingly it followeth.

And I willſet thee as a gazing-ſtock] The Septuagint renders it for an example, others a looking-glaſſe, but Calvin (after R. Salomon and Aber.-Ezra) ponam t[illegible: 1 letter] quaſi ſtercus, I will ſet thee as dung, which men gladly look beſide. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Luther rendereth it Ponam te in terriculamentum, I will make thee a bug-beare. All this was done to Niniveh that great city: and all was done by God, not by Fate, or Fortune, or any neceſſity of Nature, that ſtates and kingdoms muſt have their times and their turnes, their riſe and their ruine, as Politicians dote.Oſorius'de Nobil. l.3.