3:1 Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed!
She is full of lies;
she is filled with plunder;
she has hoarded her spoil!
3:2 The chariot drivers will crack their whips;
the chariot wheels will shake the ground;
the chariot horses
the war chariots
3:3 The charioteers
their swords
and their spears
There will be many people slain;
there will be piles of the dead,
and countless casualties
so many that people
3:4 “Because
a seductive mistress who practices sorcery,
who
and entices peoples by her sorcery
3:5 I am against you,” declares the Lord who commands armies.
“I will strip off your clothes!
I will show your nakedness to the nations
and your shame to the kingdoms;
3:6 I will pelt you with filth;
I will treat you with contempt;
I will make you a public spectacle.
3:7 Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust;
they will say, ‘Nineveh has been devastated!
Who will lament for her?’
There will be no one to comfort you!”