| Chapter 3 |
| 1 | Woe to the bloody city! it is
all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; |
| 2 | The noise of a
whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses,
and of the jumping chariots. |
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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 carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon
their corpses: |
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4 | Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the
wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through
her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. |
| 5 | Behold, I am
against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy
face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy
shame. |
| 6 |
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee
vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. |
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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?
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| 8 | Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers,
that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was
from the sea? |
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9 | Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was
infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. |
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10 | Yet was she carried away,
she went into captivity: her young children 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 in chains. |
| 11 | Thou also shalt be drunken:
thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
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| 12 | All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if
they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. |
| 13 |
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall
be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars. |
| 14 |
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and
tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. |
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15 | There shall the fire
devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the
cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the
locusts. |
| 16
| Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of
heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away. |
| 17 | Thy crowned
are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in
the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their
place is not known where they are. |
| 18 | Thy shepherds slumber, O king
of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon
the mountains, and no man gathereth them. |
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19 | There is no healing of thy
bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the
hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? |
