New Century Version NCV
New International Version NIV
1 How terrible it will be for the city that has killed so many. It is full of lies and goods stolen from other countries. It is always killing somebody.
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Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!
2 Hear the sound of whips and the noise of the wheels. Hear horses galloping and chariots bouncing along!
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The crack of whips, the clatter of wheels, galloping horses and jolting chariots!
3 Horses are charging, swords are shining, spears are gleaming! Many are dead; their bodies are piled up -- too many to count. People stumble over the dead bodies.
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Charging cavalry, flashing swords and glittering spears! Many casualties, piles of dead, bodies without number, people stumbling over the corpses—
4 The city was like a prostitute; she was charming and a lover of magic. She made nations slaves with her prostitution and her witchcraft.
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all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft.
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