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Harlot Nineveh Will Get What She Deserves

“Because of the many idolatries of the prostitute,
    the beautiful charm of a mistress of witchcraft,
she who enslaves nations by her harlotries,
    and peoples by her sorceries,
“Look! I am against you!” declares[a]Yahweh.
    “I will strip up your skirts over your face;
        I will let nations look at your nakedness and your shame.
“I will throw filth upon you,
    I will treat you with contempt,
        I will make you a spectacle.
“And it will be that everyone who sees you will flee from you,
    And they[b] will say, ‘Nineveh is destroyed!’
Who will mourn for her?
    From whence shall I seek comforters for you?”

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:5 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Nahum 3:7 Hebrew “he”