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1 Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departs not;
2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
3 The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and [there is] a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and [there is] none end of [their] corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that sells nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
5 Behold, I [am] against you, says the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts; and I will discover your skirts upon your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
6 And I will cast abominable filth upon you, and make you vile, and will set you as a gazingstock.
7 And all those that observe you will flee from you, and say, Nineveh is devastated: who will weep over her? where will I find comforters for you?
8 Are you better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about it, whose rampare [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?
9 Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite; Put and Lubim were your helpers.
10 Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top 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 hid, you also will seek strength because of the enemy.
12 All your strongholds [will be like] fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they will even fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, your people in the midst of you [are] women: the gates of your land will be set wide open to your enemies: the fire will devour your bars.
14 Draw you waters for the siege, fortify your strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
15 There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off, it will eat you up like the cankerworm: make yourself many as the cankerworm, make yourself many as the locusts.
16 You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoils, and flies away.
17 Your crowned [are] as the locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].
18 Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: your nobles will dwell [in the dust]: your people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathers [them].
19 [There is] no healing of your bruise; your wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of you will clap the hands over you: for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?