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The Doom of the Wicked City is Certain

Woe to the city that has shed much blood![a]
    She is a deceiver,[b]
She is filled with plunder,
    She has hoarded her spoils of war.[c]
The crack of the whip!
    The rumbling of the chariot wheel!
The galloping of the horse!
    The racing of the chariot!
Chariots charge!
    Swords flash!
        Spears glitter!
Many corpses are piled high![d]
    There is no end to the slain!
        They stumble over their dead!

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:1 Literally “bloods”
  2. Nahum 3:1 Literally “All of her is deception”
  3. Nahum 3:1 Literally “Prey does not depart”
  4. Nahum 3:3 Literally “Many dead, piles of corpses”

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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Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

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