The Message Bible MSG
New International Version NIV
1 Doom to Murder City - full of lies, bursting with loot, addicted to violence!
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Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!
2 Horns blaring, wheels clattering, horses rearing, chariots lurching,
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The crack of whips, the clatter of wheels, galloping horses and jolting chariots!
3 Horsemen galloping, brandishing swords and spears, Dead bodies rotting in the street, corpses stacked like cordwood, Bodies in every gutter and alley, clogging every intersection!
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Charging cavalry, flashing swords and glittering spears! Many casualties, piles of dead, bodies without number, people stumbling over the corpses—
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