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Cracking whip and rumbling wheel,
        galloping horse and careening chariot!
    Charging cavalry, flashing sword, and glittering spear;
        countless slain, masses of corpses,
            endless dead bodies—they stumble over their dead bodies!
Because of the many whorings of the whore,
        the lovely graces of the mistress of sorceries,
        the one who sells nations by means of her whorings
            and peoples by means of her sorceries:

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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(A)
all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute,
    alluring, the mistress of sorceries,(B)
who enslaved nations by her prostitution(C)
    and peoples by her witchcraft.

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