Nahum:3

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* Woe to the bloody city ! It is all full of lies [and ] violence ; the prey departeth not . * The crack of the whip , and the noise of the rattling of the wheels , and of the prancing horses , and of the bounding chariots ! * The horseman springing up , and the glitter of the sword , and the flash of the spear , and a multitude of slain , and a mass of carcases , and no end of corpses : they stumble over their corpses . * -- Because of the multitude of the fornications of the well-favoured harlot , mistress of sorceries , that selleth nations through her fornications , and families through her sorceries , * behold , I am against thee , saith Jehovah of hosts ; and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face , and I will shew 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 they that see thee shall flee from thee , and shall say , Nineveh is laid waste ! Who will bemoan her ? whence shall I seek comforters for thee ? * Art thou better than No-Amon , that was situate among the rivers , [that had ] the waters round about her , whose rampart was the sea , [and ] of the sea was her wall ? * Ethiopia was her strength , and Egypt , and it was infinite ; Phut and the Libyans were her helpers . * She too was carried away , she went into captivity : her infants also were dashed in pieces , at the top of all the streets ; and they cast lots for her honourable men , and all her great men were bound with chains . * Thou also shalt be drunken : thou shalt be hid ; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy . * All thy strongholds are [like ] fig-trees with the first-ripe figs : if they be shaken , they even fall into the mouth of the eater . * Behold , thy people in the midst of thee are [as ] women : the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies ; the fire devoureth 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 shall the fire devour thee ; the sword shall cut thee off ; it shall devour thee like the cankerworm . Make thyself many as the cankerworm , make thyself many as the locust . * Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens ; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away . * Thy chosen men are as the locusts , and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers , which camp in the hedges in the cold day : when the sun ariseth they flee away , and their place is not known where they are . * Thy shepherds slumber , O king of Assyria ; thy nobles lie still ; thy people are scattered upon the mountains , and no man gathereth them . * There is no healing of thy breach ; thy wound is grievous ; all that hear the report of thee clap the hands over thee ; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually ?

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