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Nahum 3 (AMP)

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¹ WOE TO the bloody city! It is full of lies and booty and no end to the plunder! ² The cracking of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses and chariots rumbling and bounding, ³ Horsemen mounting and charging, the flashing sword, the gleaming spear, a multitude of slain and a great number of corpses, no end of corpses! stumble over the corpses! ⁴ All because of the multitude of the harlotries , the well-favored harlot, the mistress of deadly charms who betrays and sells nations through her whoredoms and peoples through her enchantments. ⁵ Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will lift up your skirts over your face, and I will let the nations look on your nakedness and the kingdoms on your shame. ⁶ I will cast abominable things at you and make you filthy, treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock. ⁷ And all who look on you will shrink and flee from you and say, Nineveh is laid waste; who will pity and bemoan her? Where shall I seek comforters for you? ⁸ Are you better than No-amon , that dwelt by the rivers or canals, that had the waters round about her, whose rampart was a sea and water her wall? ⁹ Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and that without limit. Put and the Libyans were her helpers. ¹⁰ Yet she was carried away; she went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at all the street corners; lots were cast for her nobles, and all her great men were bound with chains. ¹¹ You will be drunk ; you will be dazed. You will seek and require a refuge because of the enemy. ¹² All your fortresses are fig trees with early figs; if they are shaken they will fall into the mouth of the eater. ¹³ Behold, your troops in the midst of you are women; the gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies ; fire consumes your bars. ¹⁴ Draw for yourself the water for a siege, make strong your fortresses! Go down into the clay pits and trample the mortar; make ready the brickkiln ! ¹⁵ there will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off; it will destroy you as the locusts . Multiply yourselves like the licking locusts; make yourselves many like the swarming locusts! ¹⁶ You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The swarming locust spreads itself and destroys, and then flies away. ¹⁷ Your princes are like the grasshoppers and your marshals like the swarms of locusts which encamp in the hedges on a cold day--but when the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where they are. ¹⁸ Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles are lying still . Your people are scattered on the mountains and there is no one to gather them. ¹⁹ There is no healing of your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not your evil come continually?