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3:1  Woe to the city of bloodshed, completely full of deception and pillage; Her prey never departs.
3:2  The sound of the whip, And the sound of the rumbling of the wheel, Galloping horses, And bounding chariots!
3:3  Horsemen charging, And swords flaming, and spears flashing, Many slain, a mass of corpses, And there is no end to dead bodies— They stumble over the dead bodies!
3:4  All because of the many harlotries of the harlot, The charming one, the mistress of sorceries, Who sells nations by her harlotries And families by her sorceries.
3:5  “Behold, I am against you,” declares Yahweh of hosts; “And I will uncover your skirts over your face And show to the nations your nakedness And to the kingdoms your disgrace.
3:6  I will throw detestable filth on you And display you as a wicked fool And set you up as a spectacle.
3:7  And it will be that all who see you Will flee from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated! Who will console her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
3:8  Are you better than No-amon, Which sits along the waters of the Nile, With water surrounding her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall consisted of the sea?
3:9  Ethiopia was her might, And Egypt too, without end. Put and Lubim were among her helpers.
3:10  Yet she became an exile; She went into captivity; Also her infants were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound with fetters.
3:11  You too will become drunk; You will be hidden. You too will search for a strong defense from the enemy.
3:12  All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit— When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.
3:13  Behold, your people are women in your midst! The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies; Fire consumes your gate bars.
3:14  Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!
3:15  There, fire will consume you; The sword will cut you down; It will consume you as the locust does. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply yourself like the swarming locust.
3:16  You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven— The creeping locust strips and flies away.
3:17  Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like a locust-swarm Encamping in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises, and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.
3:18  Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria; Your mighty ones are lying down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, And there is no one to regather them.