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3:1  Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. Its victim never departs.
3:2  The noise of a whip And the noise of rattling wheels, Of galloping horses, Of clattering chariots!
3:3  Horsemen charge with bright sword and glittering spear. There is a multitude of slain, A great number of bodies, Countless corpses— They stumble over the corpses—
3:4  Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot, The mistress of sorceries, Who sells nations through her harlotries, And families through her sorceries.
3:5  “Behold, I am against you,” says the Lord of hosts; “I will lift your skirts over your face, I will show the nations your nakedness, And the kingdoms your shame.
3:6  I will cast abominable filth upon you, Make you vile, And make you a spectacle.
3:7  It shall come to pass that all who look upon you Will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her?’ Where shall I seek comforters for you?”
3:8  Are you better than No Amon That was situated by the River, That had the waters around her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall was the sea?
3:9  Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, And it was boundless; Put and Lubim were your helpers.
3:10  Yet she was carried away, She went into captivity; Her young children also were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound in chains.
3:11  You also will be drunk; You will be hidden; You also will seek refuge from the enemy.
3:12  All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs: If they are shaken, They fall into the mouth of the eater.
3:13  Surely, your people in your midst are women! The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies; Fire shall devour the bars of your gates.
3:14  Draw your water for the siege! Fortify your strongholds! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Make strong the brick kiln!
3:15  There the fire will devour you, The sword will cut you off; It will eat you up like a locust. Make yourself many—like the locust! Make yourself many—like the swarming locusts!
3:16  You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven. The locust plunders and flies away.
3:17  Your commanders are like swarming locusts, And your generals like great grasshoppers, Which camp in the hedges on a cold day; When the sun rises they flee away, And the place where they are is not known.
3:18  Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; Your nobles rest in the dust. Your people are scattered on the mountains, And no one gathers them.