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Chariots charge!
    Swords flash!
        Spears glitter!
Many corpses are piled high![a]
    There is no end to the slain!
        They stumble over their dead!

Harlot Nineveh Will Get What She Deserves

“Because of the many idolatries of the prostitute,
    the beautiful charm of a mistress of witchcraft,
she who enslaves nations by her harlotries,
    and peoples by her sorceries,
“Look! I am against you!” declares[b]Yahweh.
    “I will strip up your skirts over your face;
        I will let nations look at your nakedness and your shame.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:3 Literally “Many dead, piles of corpses”
  2. Nahum 3:5 Literally “a declaration of”