1 Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departs not;

2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

3 The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and [there is] a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcasses; and [there is] none end of [their] corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

4 Because of the multitude of the cult prostitution of the well-favored prostitute, the mistress of witchcrafts, that sells nations through her cult prostitution, and families through her witchcrafts.

5 Behold, I [am] against youi, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; and I will lift youri skirts over youri face, and I will show the nations youri nakedness, and the kingdoms youri shame.

6 And I will cast abominable filth upon youi, and make youi vile, and will set youi as a gazingstock.

7 And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that look upon youi shall flee from youi, and say, Nineveh [abode of Ninus, or Offspring’s Habitation] is laid waste: who will bemoan her? from what place shall I seek comforters for youi?

8 Are youi better than No-Amon [master workman - disrupting], that was situated among the rivers (of Egypt), [that had] the waters round about it, whose fortification (defensive structure) [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?

9 Ethiopia [Kush] and Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite; Put [a bow] and Lubim [empty-hearted] were youri helpers.

10 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 cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

11 youi also shall be drunken: youi shall be hid, youi also shall seek refuge because of the enemy.

12 All youri strong holds [shall be like] fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

13 Behold, youri people in the midst of youi [behave like] women: the gates of youri land shall be set wide open unto youri enemies: the fire shall devour youri bars.

14 Draw yourselfi waters for the siege, fortify youri strong holds: go into clay, and trample the mortar, make strong the brick factory.

15 There shall the fire devour youi; the sword shall cut youi off, it shall eat youi up like the cankerworm: make yourself many as the cankerworm, make yourself many as the locusts.

16 youi have multiplied youri merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoils, and flies away.

17 Your1s guardsmen [are] as the locusts, and youri captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].

18 Your1s shepherds slumber, O king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))): youri nobles shall dwell [in the dust]: youri people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathers [them].

19 [There is] no healing of youri bruise; youri wound is grievous: all that hear the report of youi shall clap the hands over youi: for upon whom has not youri wickedness passed continually?