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1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies
and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart. 2 The noise of the whip, the noise
of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots, 3 the
horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a
multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the
bodies. They stumble on their bodies, 4 because of the multitude of the
prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells
nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft. 5 “Behold,
I am against you,” says Jehovah of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your
face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. 6 I
will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a
spectacle. 7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from
you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I
seek comforters for you?”
8 Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated
among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and
her wall was of the sea? 9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put
and Libya were her helpers. 10 Yet was she carried away. She went into
captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the
streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound
in chains. 11 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will
seek a stronghold because of the enemy. 12 All your fortresses will be
like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the
mouth of the eater. 13 Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates
of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your
bars. 14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the
clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong. 15 There the fire
will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the
grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust. 16 You
have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper
strips, and flees away. 17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your
officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day,
but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where
they are. 18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie
down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather
them. 19 There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who
hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your
endless cruelty?
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