| Chapter 3
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 9 | Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was
infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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? |
