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1 O bloody citie, stuffed throughout with falsehood, with extreme dealing, nor wilbe brought from spoyling. 2 The noyse of the whippe, the noyse of ratling of wheales, the praunsing of horses, and the iumping of charets: 3 The horseman lifting vp both the glistering blade of the sword & also the shining speare, many wounded, many corpses, and no end of carcasses, they shall stumble at dead bodies. 4 Because of the manyfolde fornication of the beautifull harlot, ful of charmes, that selles nations by the meanes of her whordome, and the people through her charminges. 5 Lo I against thee sayth the Lorde of hoastes, and will turne vp thy skirtes ouer thy face, and wil shewe the gentiles thy fylth, and kingdomes thy shame: 6 And will cast vpon thee abominable filth, and wil bring thee downe, and wil make thee as vile as doung. 7 And it shall come to passe that all that shall behold thee, shall flee from thee, and shall say, Niniue is destroyed, and who is greeued therwith? from whence shall I seke out comforters for thee? Nahum 3:1-7, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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