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ULT NAH Chapter 3

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3 Woe to the city full of blood!

It is all full of lies and stolen property; Her prey never departs.

2 But now there is the noise of whips and the sound of rattling wheels,

galloping horses, and bounding chariots.

3 There are charging horsemen,

flashing swords, glittering spears,

many slain, heaps of corpses.

There is no end to the dead bodies; their attackers stumble over the dead bodies.

4 This is happening because of the many harlotries of the beautiful prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft,

who sells nations through her prostitution, and peoples through her acts of witchcraft.

5 “See, I am against you—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts—I will raise up your skirt over your face

and show your nakedness to the nations, your shame to the kingdoms.

6 I will throw disgusting filth on you and make you vile; I will make you someone that everyone will look at with digust.

7 It will come about that everyone who looks at you will flee from you and say,

‘Nineveh is destroyed; who will weep for her?’

Where can I find anyone to comfort you?”

8 Nineveh, are you better than Thebes, that was built on the Nile River, that had water around her,

whose defense was the ocean, whose wall was the sea itself?

9 Cush and Egypt were her strength, and there was no end to its strength;

Put and Libya were allies to her.

10 Yet Thebes was carried away; she went into captivity;

her young children were dashed in pieces at the head of every street;

her enemies threw lots for her honorable men,

and all her great men were bound in chains.

11 You also will become drunk; you will try to hide,

and you will also look for a refuge from your enemy.

12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the earliest ripe figs:

if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

13 See, the people among you are women;

the gates of your land have been opened wide to your enemies;

fire has devoured their bars.

14 Go draw water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses;

go into the clay and tread the mortar;

pick up the molds for the bricks.

15 Fire will devour you there, and the sword will cut you off. It will devour you as creeping locusts devour everything.

Make yourselves as many as the creeping locusts, as many as the swarming locusts.

16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars in the heavens; but they are like locusts: they spread their wings and then fly away.

17 Your princes are like locusts, and your generals are like swarms of locusts

that settle on the walls on a cold day.

But when the sun rises they fly away and no one knows where they are.

18 King of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep; your nobles are lying down resting.

Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.

19 No healing is possible for your wounds. Your wounds are severe.

Everyone who hears the news about you will clap their hands in joy over you.

For upon whom has not come your endless evil?

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