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# Chapter 3
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1. Woe to the bloody city!
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It is all full of lies and robbery.
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Its victim never departs.
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2. The noise of a whip
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And the noise of rattling wheels,
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Of galloping horses,
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Of clattering chariots!
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3. Horsemen charge with bright sword and glittering spear.
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There is a multitude of slain,
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A great number of bodies,
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Countless corpses--
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They stumble over the corpses--
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4. Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot,
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The mistress of sorceries,
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Who sells nations through her harlotries,
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And families through her sorceries.
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5. "Behold, I am against you," says the Lord of hosts;
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"I will lift your skirts over your face,
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I will show the nations your nakedness,
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And the kingdoms your shame.
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6. I will cast abominable filth upon you,
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Make you vile,
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And make you a spectacle.
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7. It shall come to pass that all who look upon you
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Will flee from you, and say,
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'Nineveh is laid waste!
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Who will bemoan her?'
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Where shall I seek comforters for you?"
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8. Are you better than No Amon
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That was situated by the River,
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That had the waters around her,
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Whose rampart was the sea,
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Whose wall was the sea?
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9. Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength,
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And it was boundless;
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Put and Lubim were your helpers.
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10. Yet she was carried away,
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She went into captivity;
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Her young children also were dashed to pieces
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At the head of every street;
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They cast lots for her honorable men,
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And all her great men were bound in chains.
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11. You also will be drunk;
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You will be hidden;
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You also will seek refuge from the enemy.
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12. All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs:
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If they are shaken,
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They fall into the mouth of the eater.
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13. Surely, your people in your midst are women!
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The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies;
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Fire shall devour the bars of your gates.
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14. Draw your water for the siege!
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Fortify your strongholds!
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Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
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Make strong the brick kiln!
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15. There the fire will devour you,
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The sword will cut you off;
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It will eat you up like a locust.
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Make yourself many--like the locust!
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Make yourself many--like the swarming locusts!
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16. You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven.
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The locust plunders and flies away.
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17. Your commanders are like swarming locusts,
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And your generals like great grasshoppers,
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Which camp in the hedges on a cold day;
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When the sun rises they flee away,
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And the place where they are is not known.
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18. Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria;
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Your nobles rest in the dust.
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Your people are scattered on the mountains,
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And no one gathers them.
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19. Your injury has no healing,
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Your wound is severe.
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All who hear news of you
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Will clap their hands over you,
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For upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?
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