1Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;[ † ]Ezekiel 22:2-3Ezekiel 24:6-9Habakkuk 2:12 2the noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. 3The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: 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: 4because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.[ † ]Isaiah 47:9-12Revelation 18:2-3
5Behold, 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 50:31Ezekiel 26:3Nahum 2:13Isaiah 47:2-3Jeremiah 13:26 6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.[ † ]Nahum 1:14Hebrews 10:33 7And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?[ † ]Revelation 18:10Jonah 3:3Jonah 4:11Isaiah 51:19Jeremiah 15:5
8Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?[ † ]Amos 6:2Jeremiah 46:25Ezekiel 30:14-16 9Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.[ † ]Genesis 10:6Jeremiah 46:9Ezekiel 27:10 10Yet 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.[ † ]Psalms 137:9Isaiah 13:16Hosea 13:16Lamentations 2:19Joel 3:3Obadiah 11 11Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.[ † ]Isaiah 49:26Jeremiah 25:27Nahum 1:10 12All thy 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.[ † ]Revelation 6:12-13 13Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.[ † ]Isaiah 19:16Jeremiah 50:37Jeremiah 51:30Psalms 147:13
14Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.[ † ]Nahum 2:1 15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.[ † ]Joel 1:4 16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.[ † ]Revelation 18:3-11-19 17Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are .[ † ]Revelation 9:7
18Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them .[ † ]Exodus 15:16Psalms 76:5-6Isaiah 56:10Jeremiah 51:57Jeremiah 50:18Ezekiel 31:31 Kings 22:17Isaiah 13:14 19There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?[ † ]Jeremiah 46:11Micah 1:9Job 27:23Lamentations 2:15Zephaniah 2:15