2016-04-01 21:07:38 +00:00
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\c 3
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\p
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\q
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\v 1 Woe to the city full of blood!
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\q It is all full of lies and stolen property; victims are always in her.
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\q
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\v 2 But now there is the noise of whips and the sound of rattling wheels,
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\q prancing horses, and bounding chariots.
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\q
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\v 3 There are attacking horsemen,
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\q flashing swords, glittering spears,
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\q heaps of corpses, great piles of bodies.
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\q There is no end to the bodies; their attackers stumble over them.
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\q
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\v 4 This is happening because of the lustful actions of the beautiful prostitute, the expert in witchcraft,
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\q who sells nations through her prostitution, and peoples through her acts of witchcraft.
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\q
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\v 5 "See, I am against you"—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts. "I will raise up your skirt over your face
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\q and show your private parts to the nations, your shame to the kingdoms.
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\q
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\v 6 I will throw disgusting filth on you and make you vile; I will make you someone that everyone will look at.
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\q
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\v 7 It will come about that everyone who looks at you will flee from you and say,
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\q 'Nineveh is destroyed; who will weep for her?'
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\q Where can I find anyone to comfort you?"
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\q
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\v 8 Nineveh, are you better than Thebes, that was built on the Nile River, that had water around her,
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\q whose defense was the ocean, whose wall was the sea itself?
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\v 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and there was no end to it;
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\q Put and Libya were allies to her.
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\v 10 Yet Thebes was carried away; she went into captivity;
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\q her young children were dashed in pieces at the head of every street;
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\q her enemies threw lots for her honorable men,
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2016-04-01 21:07:38 +00:00
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\q and all her great men were bound in chains.
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\v 11 You also will become drunk; you will try to hide,
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\q and you will also look for a refuge from your enemy.
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\q
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\v 12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the earliest ripe figs:
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\q if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
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\q
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\v 13 See, the people among you are women;
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\q the gates of your land have been opened wide to your enemies;
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\q fire has devoured their bars.
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\v 14 Go draw water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses;
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\q go into the clay and tread the mortar;
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\q pick up the molds for the bricks.
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\v 15 Fire will devour you there, and the sword will destroy you. It will devour you as young locusts devour everything.
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\p
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\q Make yourselves as many as the young locusts, as many as the full-grown locusts.
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\v 16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars in the heavens; but they are like young locusts: they plunder the land and then fly away.
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\v 17 Your princes are as many as the full-grown locusts, and your generals are like swarms of them
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\q that camp in the walls on a cold day.
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\q But when the sun rises they fly away to no one knows where.
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\v 18 King of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep; your rulers are resting.
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\q Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
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\v 19 No healing is possible for your wounds. Your wounds are severe.
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\q Everyone who hears the news about you will clap their hands in joy over you.
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\q Who has escaped your constant wickedness?
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