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The Coming Judgment of Nineveh

Woe to this city, contaminated with shed blood,

all full of lies and robberies—
        it is[a] never without victims!
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[b] trip over the corpses.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:1 The Heb. lacks it is
  2. Nahum 3:3 Lit. They

Woe to Nineveh

Woe to the city of blood,(A)
    full of lies,(B)
full of plunder,
    never without victims!
The crack of whips,
    the clatter of wheels,
galloping horses
    and jolting chariots!
Charging cavalry,
    flashing swords
    and glittering spears!
Many casualties,
    piles of dead,
bodies without number,
    people stumbling over the corpses(C)

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