3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and]
robberies; the prey departeth not;
3:2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the
wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding
chariots.
3:3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword, and the
glittering spear: and [there is] a multitude of slain, and a
great number of carcasses; and [there is] no end of [their]
corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
3:4 Because of the multitude of the lewd deeds of the
well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth
nations through her lewd deeds, and families through her
witchcrafts.
3:5 Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I
will remove thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the
nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
3:6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee
vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
3:7 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?
3:8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situated among
the rivers, [that had] the waters around it, whose rampart
[was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?
3:9 Cush and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite;
Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
3:10 Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her
young children 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.
3:11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also
shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
3:12 All thy strong holds [shall be like] fig-trees with the
first ripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into
the mouth of the eater.
3:13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee [are] women: the
gates of thy land shall be set wide open to thy enemies: the
fire shall devour thy bars.
3:14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds:
go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.
3:15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee
off, it shall eat thee up like the canker-worm: make thyself
many as the canker-worm, make thyself many as the locusts.
3:16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of
heaven: the canker-worm spoileth, and flieth away.
3:17 Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the
great grasshoppers, which settle in the hedges in the cold day,
[but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is
not known where they [are].
3:18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall
dwell [in the dust]: thy people are scattered upon the
mountains, and no man gathereth [them].
3:19 [There is] no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous:
all that hear the fame of thee shall clap the hands over thee:
for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
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