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Because of the countless debaucheries of the prostitute,
    gracefully alluring, mistress of sorcery,
who enslaves[a] nations through her debaucheries
    and peoples through her sorcery,(A)
I am against you,
    says the Lord of hosts,
    and will lift up your skirts over your face,
and I will let nations look on your nakedness
    and kingdoms on your shame.(B)
I will throw filth at you
    and treat you with contempt
    and make you a spectacle.(C)
Then all who see you will shrink from you and say,
“Nineveh is devastated; who will bemoan her?”
    Where shall I seek comforters for you?(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.4 Heb sells

Innumerable are the harlotries of this well-favored whore,
    this mistress of witchcraft,
who enslaves nations through her fornication
    and families through her sorcery.

God’s Decree against Nineveh

“Look, I am against you,” declares the Lord of the Heavenly Armies,
    “so I will pull up your dress over your face.
I will show your nakedness to the nations,
    and your disgrace to the kingdoms.
I will hurl abominable filth upon you,
    making you look foolish,
        and making an example of you.
It will be that everyone who looks at you will run away, saying,
    ‘Nineveh has been violently overthrown!
        Who will mourn for her?
    Where will I find anyone to comfort you?’”

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