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

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

3The 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:

4Because 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.

5Behold, I [am] against youⁱ, says the LORD-Yehovah (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.

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

7And 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?

8Are 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?

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

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.

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

12All 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.

13Behold, 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.

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

15There 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.

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

17Your1s 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].

18Your1s 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?