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1 WOE to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and iniquity; the plunder in it cannot be estimated. 2 The noise of the whip and the noise of rattling of the wheels and of the snorting of horses and of bounding chariots! 3 The horseman driving, with the flash of the sword and the glittering spear! And there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of corpses; there is no end to corpses; they stumble over their corpses. 4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the harlot that was beautiful and mistress of witchcrafts, who brings up nations through her whoredoms and tribes through her witchcraft, 5 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts; and I will raise your skirts over your face and will show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame. 6 And I will cast filth upon you and disgrace you, and will make you a spectacle, 7 And it shall come to pass that all who look upon you shall abhor you and say, Nineveh is plundered; who will bemoan her? Whence shall I seek a comforter for you? 8 Are you better than Jawan of Ammon, which is situated by the rivers, that had waters round about her, whose rampart was the sea, and water her wall? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was limitless; Put and the Libyans were her helpers; 10 Yet even she was carried away into captivity; her children 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. Nahum 3:1-10, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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