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Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured*harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that sellethnations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
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Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
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And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seekcomforters for thee?
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Art thou better than populous*No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
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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 castlots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.