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The crack of whips
    and the clamor of wheels!
The galloping horses
    and the bounding chariots!
The cavalry attacks—
    the flashing sword
        and the glittering spear!
Many are the slain—
    so many casualties!—
No end to bodies,
    and the soldiers[a] trip over the corpses.
Innumerable are the harlotries of this well-favored whore,
    this mistress of witchcraft,
who enslaves nations through her fornication
    and families through her sorcery.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:3 Lit. They