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O bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. And its prey never departs:

the noise of a whip and the noise of the moving of the wheels and the beating of the horses and the leaping of the chariots.

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Nineveh’s Complete Ruin

(A)Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage;
Her prey does not leave.
The (B)sound of the whip,
The sound of the roar of the wheel,
Galloping horses
And [a]bounding chariots!

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:2 Lit leaping

Woe to Nineveh

Woe to the city of blood,(A)
    full of lies,(B)
full of plunder,
    never without victims!
The crack of whips,
    the clatter of wheels,
galloping horses
    and jolting chariots!

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