1. Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the taking of prey does not cease;
2. The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing 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 carcasses; and there is no end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
4. Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the beautiful harlot, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her whoredom, and families through her witchcraft.
5. Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts; and I will uncover your skirts over your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
6. And I will throw abominable filth upon you, and make you vile, and will make you a gazing stock.
7. And it shall come to pass, that all those who look upon you shall flee from you, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? where shall I seek comforters for you?
8. Are you better than populous No, that was situated among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart 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 taken 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 shall be drunken: you shall be hidden, you also shall seek strength because of the enemy.
12. All your strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
13. Behold, your people in the midst of you are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.
14. Draw waters for the siege, fortify your strongholds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.
15. There shall the fire devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the young locust: make yourself numerous like the young locust, make yourself many like the locusts.
16. You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven: the young locust plunders, and flies away.
17. Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your captains like 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 shall dwell in the dust: your people are scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathers them.
19. There is no healing of your bruise; your wound is severe: all that hear the report of you shall clap their hands over you: for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?
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