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Woe to the bloodycity! it is all full of lies and robbery; the preydeparteth not;
2
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransinghorses, and of the jumpingchariots.
3
The horseman lifteth up both the brightsword and the glitteringspear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
4
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.
5
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 I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile , and will set thee as a gazingstock.