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and of the mounting rider, and of the glittering sword, and of the gleaming arms, and of a multitude of slain, and of heavy falling: and there was no end to her nations, but they shall be weak in their bodies
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because of the abundance of fornication: a fair harlot, and well-favoured, skilled in sorcery, that sells the nations by her fornication, and peoples by her sorceries.
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Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord God Almighty, and I will uncover thy skirts in thy presence, and I will shew the nations thy shame, and the kingdoms thy disgrace.
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And I will cast abominable filth upon thee according to thine unclean ways, and will make thee a public example.
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And it shall be every one that sees thee shall go down from thee, and shall say, Wretched Nineve! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?
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Prepare thee a portion, tune the chord, prepare a portion for Ammon: she that dwells among the rivers, water is round about her, whose dominion is the sea, and whose walls are water.
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And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight ; and the Libyans became her helpers.
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Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious , and all her nobles shall be bound in chains.
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And thou shalt be drunken, and shalt be overlooked; and thou shalt seek for thyself strength because of enemies.
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All thy strong-holds are as fig-trees having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.
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Behold, thy people within thee are as women: the gates of thy land shall surely be opened to thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
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Draw thee water for a siege, and well secure thy strong-holds: enter into the clay, and be thou trodden in the chaff, make stronger than brick.
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There the fire shall devour thee; the sword shall utterly destroy thee, it shall devour thee as the locust, and thou shalt be pressed down as a palmerworm.