Nahum:3

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* Woe to the bloody city ! It is all full of lies and rapine . The prey departs not . * The noise of the whip , and the noise of the rattling of wheels , and prancing horses , and bounding chariots , * the horseman mounting , and the flashing sword , and the glittering spear , and a multitude of slain , and a great heap of corpses , and there is no end of the bodies . They stumble upon their bodies , * because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot , the mistress of witchcrafts , who sells nations through her whoredoms , and families through her witchcrafts . * Behold , I am against thee , says LORD of hosts , and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face , and I will show the nations thy nakedness , and the kingdoms thy shame . * And I will cast abominable filth upon thee , and make thee vile , and will set thee as a gazing-stock . * And it shall come to pass , that all those who look upon thee shall flee from thee , and say , Nineveh is laid waste . Who will bemoan her ? From where shall I seek comforters for thee ? * Are thou better than No-amon , that was situated among the rivers , that had the waters round about her , whose rampart was the sea , [and ] her wall was of the sea ? * Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength , and it was infinite . Put and Lubim were thy helpers . * Yet she was carried away . She went into captivity . Her young sons 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 . * Thou also shall be drunken . Thou shall be hid . Thou also shall seek a stronghold because of the enemy . * All thy fortresses shall be [like ] fig trees with the first ripe figs . If they be shaken , they fall into the mouth of the eater . * Behold , thy people in the midst of thee are women . The gates of thy land are set wide open to thine enemies . The fire has devoured thy bars . * Draw thee water for the siege . Strengthen thy fortresses . Go into the clay , and tread the mortar . Make strong the brick kiln . * There the fire shall devour thee . The sword shall cut thee off . It shall devour thee like the canker-worm . Make thyself many as the canker-worm . Make thyself many as the locust . * Thou have multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven . The canker-worm ravages , and flees away . * Thy rulers are as the locusts , and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers , which encamp in the hedges in the cold day , but when the sun arises they flee away , and their place is not known where they are . * Thy shepherds slumber , O king of Assyria . Thy nobles are at rest . Thy people are scattered upon the mountains , and there is none to gather them . * There is no assuaging of thy hurt . Thy wound is grievous . All who hear the report of thee clap their hands over thee , for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually ?

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