Dual Panel1Woe <01945> to the city <05892> guilty of bloodshed <01818>! She is full of lies <03585>; she is filled <04395> with plunder <06563>; she has hoarded <04185> her spoil <02964>!
2The chariot <06963> drivers will crack their whips <07752>; the chariot <06963> wheels <0212> will shake the ground <07494>; the chariot horses <05483> will gallop <01725>; the war chariots <04818> will bolt <07540> forward!
3The charioteers <06571> will charge ahead <05927>; their swords <02719> will flash <03851> and their spears <02595> will glimmer <01300>! There will be many people <07230> slain <02491>; there will be piles <03514> of the dead <06297>, and countless <07097> <0369> casualties <01472>– so many that people will stumble <03782> over the corpses <01472>.
4“Because you have acted like <02181> a wanton <07230> prostitute <02181>– a seductive <02580> <02896> mistress who practices <01172> sorcery <03785>, who enslaves <04376> nations <01471> by her harlotry <02183>, and entices peoples <04940> by her sorcery <03785>–
5I am against <0413> you,” declares <05002> the Lord <03068> who commands armies <06635>. “I will strip off <01540> your clothes <07757>! I will show <07200> your nakedness <04626> to the nations <01471> and your shame <07036> to the kingdoms <04467>;
6I will pelt <07993> you with filth <08251>; I will treat you with contempt <05034>; I will make <07760> you a public spectacle <07210>.
7Everyone <03605> who sees <07200> you will turn away <05074> from <04480> you in disgust; they will say <0559>, ‘Nineveh <05210> has been devastated <07703>! Who <04310> will lament <05110> for her?’ There will be no one to comfort <05162> you!”
8You are no more secure <03190> than Thebes <0528> <04996>– she was located <03427> on the banks of the Nile <02975>; the waters <04325> surrounded <05439> her, her rampart <02426> was the sea <03220>, the water <03220> was her wall <02346>.
9Cush <03568> and Egypt <04714> had limitless <07097> <0369> strength <06109>; Put <06316> and the Libyans <03864> were among her allies <05833>.
10Yet <01571> she <01931> went <01980> into captivity <07628> as an exile <01473>; even <01571> her infants <05768> were smashed to pieces <07376> at <05921> the head <07218> of every <03605> street <02351>. They cast <03032> lots <01486> for her nobility <03513>; all <03605> her dignitaries <01419> were bound <07576> with chains <02131>.
11You <0859> too <01571> will act <01961> like drunkards <07937>; you will go into hiding <05956>; you <0859> too <01571> will seek <01245> refuge <04581> from the enemy <0341>.
12All <03605> your fortifications <04013> will be like fig trees <08384> with <05973> first-ripe fruit <01061>: If <0518> they are shaken <05128>, their figs will fall <05307> into <05921> the mouth <06310> of the eater <0398>!
13Your warriors <05971> will be like women <0802> in your midst <07130>; the gates <08179> of your land <0776> will be wide open <06605> <06605> to your enemies <0341>; fire <0784> will consume <0398> the bars <01280> of your gates.
14Draw <07579> yourselves water <04325> for a siege <04692>! Strengthen <02388> your fortifications <04013>! Trample <0935> the mud <02916> and tread <07429> the clay <02563>! Make mud bricks <04404> to strengthen <02388> your walls!
15There <08033> the fire <0784> will consume <0398> you; the sword <02719> will cut <03772> you down <03772>; it will devour <0398> you like the young locust <03218> would. Multiply <03513> yourself like the young locust <03218>; multiply <03513> yourself like the flying locust <0697>!
16Increase <07235> your merchants <07402> more than the stars <03556> of heaven <08064>! They are like the young locust <03218> which sheds <06584> its skin and flies away <05774>.
17Your courtiers <04502> are like locusts <0697>, your officials <02951> are like a swarm of locusts <01462> <01462>! They encamp <02583> in the walls <01448> on a cold <07135> day <03117>, yet when the sun <08121> rises <02224>, they fly away <05074>; and no <03808> one knows <03045> where <0335> they are.
18Your shepherds <07462> are sleeping <05123>, O king <04428> of Assyria <0804>! Your officers <0117> are slumbering <07931>! Your people <05971> are scattered <06335> like sheep on <05921> the mountains <02022> and there is no one <0369> to regather <06908> them!
19Your destruction <07667> is like an incurable <03545> wound <04347> <02470>; your demise is like a fatal injury! All <03605> who hear <08085> what has happened <08088> to you will clap <08628> their hands <03709> for <03588> joy, for no <03808> one <04310> ever escaped <05674> your endless <08548> cruelty <07451>!