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Chapter 3

Woe to the Bloodstained City[a]

Woe to the bloodstained city,
    festering with lies,
full of booty,
    never ceasing in its plunder.
Endless are the crack of the whip
    and the rumbling of wheels,
galloping horses
    and jolting chariots,

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:1 Hallucinating description of the last days of Nineveh: the seductive gluttony of the peoples undergoes the pain of adulterous women.

Woe to Nineveh

Woe to the city of blood,(A)
    full of lies,(B)
full of plunder,
    never without victims!
The crack of whips,
    the clatter of wheels,
galloping horses
    and jolting chariots!

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