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1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and rapine; The prey departeth not. 2 Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; And prancing horses, and bounding chariots; 3 The horseman charging, And the flashing sword, and the glittering spear; And a multitude of slain, and a heap of carcases; And there is no end of the corpses, and they stumble upon their corpses; 4 Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favoured harlot, The mistress of witchcrafts, That selleth nations through her harlotries, And families through her witchcrafts. 5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, And I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, And I will shew the nations thy nakedness, And the kingdoms thy shame. 6 And I will cast detestable things upon thee, and make thee vile, And will make thee as dung. 7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee Shall flee from thee, And say: 'Nineveh is laid waste; Who will bemoan her? Whence shall I seek comforters for thee?' Nahum 3:1-7, JPS Tanakh 1917. Public domain.
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