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NAHUM
- 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:
- Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot,
- The mistress of witchcrafts,
- That selleth nations through her whoredoms,
- And families through her witchcrafts.
- Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts;
- And I will discover thy skirts upon thy face,
- And I will shew the nations thy nakedness,
- And the kingdoms thy shame.
- And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile,
- And will set thee as a gazingstock.
- And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say,
- Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her?
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