Chapter 3
1 Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departs not;
2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
3 The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and [there is] a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcasses; and [there is] none end of [their] corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
4 Because of the multitude of the cult prostitution of the well-favored prostitute, the mistress of witchcrafts, that sells nations through her cult prostitution, and families through her witchcrafts.
5 Behold, I [am] against you i , says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] ; and I will lift your i skirts over your i face, and I will show the nations your i nakedness, and the kingdoms your i shame.
6 And I will cast abominable filth upon you i , and make you i vile, and will set you i as a gazingstock.
7 And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that look upon you i shall flee from you i , and say, Nineveh [abode of Ninus, or Offspring’s Habitation] is laid waste: who will bemoan her? from what place shall I seek comforters for you i ?
8 Are you i better than No-Amon [master workman - disrupting] , that was situated among the rivers (of Egypt) , [that had] the waters round about it, whose fortification (defensive structure) [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?
9 Ethiopia [Kush] and Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite; Put [a bow] and Lubim [empty-hearted] were your i helpers.
10 Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 you i also shall be drunken: you i shall be hid, you i also shall seek refuge because of the enemy.
12 All your i strong holds [shall be like] fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, your i people in the midst of you i [behave like] women: the gates of your i land shall be set wide open unto your i enemies: the fire shall devour your i bars.
14 Draw yourselfi waters for the siege, fortify your i strong holds: go into clay, and trample the mortar, make strong the brick factory.
15 There shall the fire devour you i ; the sword shall cut you i off, it shall eat you i up like the cankerworm: make yourself many as the cankerworm, make yourself many as the locusts.
16 you i have multiplied your i merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoils, and flies away.
17 Your 1s guardsmen [are] as the locusts, and your i captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are] .
18 Your 1s shepherds slumber, O king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) : your i nobles shall dwell [in the dust] : your i people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathers [them] .
19 [There is] no healing of your i bruise; your i wound is grievous: all that hear the report of you i shall clap the hands over you i : for upon whom has not your i wickedness passed continually?