Nahum 3
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Woe to the bloody city! it is all
full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
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the noise of a whip, and the noise of the
rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the
jumping chariots.
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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 none end
of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
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because of the multitude of the whoredoms
of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that
selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her
witchcrafts.
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Behold, I am against thee, saith
the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy
skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and
the kingdoms thy shame.
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And I will cast abominable filth upon
thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a
gazingstock.
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And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nin'eveh
is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters
for thee?
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Art thou better than populous No, 1 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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Ethiopia and Egypt were her
strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy
helpers.
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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 honorable men,
and all her great men were bound in chains.
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Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be
hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
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All thy strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall
even fall into the mouth of the eater.
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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.
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Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify
thy strongholds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the
brickkiln.
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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.
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Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above
the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth
away.
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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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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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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?
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