13HERE I [AM] AGAINST YOU [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH OF HOSTS AND I WILL BURN IN <THE> SMOKE CHARIOTRY ITS AND YOUNG LIONS YOUR IT WILL CONSUME [THE] SWORD AND I WILL CUT OFF FROM [THE] EARTH PREY YOUR AND NOT IT WILL BE HEARD AGAIN [THE] VOICE OF MESSENGERS YOUR 13“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will reduce your chariots to cinders, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard
1WOE TO! [THE] CITY OF BLOOD<S> ALL OF IT LYING PLUNDER [IS] FULL NOT IT WILL DEPART PREY Judgment on Nineveh 1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
2[THE] SOUND OF A WHIP AND [THE] SOUND OF [THE] RATTLING OF A WHEEL AND A HORSE GALLOPING AND A CHARIOT JOLTING 2The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
3A HORSEMAN BRINGING UP AND [THE] BLADE OF A SWORD AND [THE] FLASH OF A SPEAR AND [THE] MULTITUDE OF [THE] SLAIN AND [THE] WEIGHT OF CORPSE[S] AND THERE NOT [IS] AN END TO THE BODI[ES] AND PEOPLE WILL STUMBLE OVER BODI[ES] THEIR 3Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead—
4FROM [THE] ABUNDANCE OF [THE] PROSTITUTION<S> OF A PROSTITUTE GOOD OF GRACE A MISTRESS OF SORCERIES WHO SELLS NATIONS BY PROSTITUTION<S> HER AND CLANS BY SORCERIES HER 4because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
5HERE I [AM] AGAINST YOU [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH OF HOSTS AND I WILL UNCOVER SKIRTS YOUR ON FACE YOUR AND I WILL SHOW NATIONS NAKEDNESS YOUR AND KINGDOMS SHAME YOUR 5“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
6AND I WILL THROW ON YOU DETESTABLE THINGS AND I WILL TREAT WITH CONTEMPT YOU AND I WILL MAKE YOU LIKE A SPECTACLE 6I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
7AND IT WILL BE ALL [THOSE WHO] SEE YOU HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU AND HE WILL SAY IT IS DEVASTATED NINEVEH WHO? WILL HE SHOW SYMPATHY TO IT FROM WHERE? WILL I SEEK COMFORTERS FOR YOU 7Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”
8¿ HAVE YOU BEEN MADE GOOD MORE THAN NO AMON THAT WAS DWELLING AMONG THE CANALS WATER [WAS] ALL AROUND <TO> IT WHICH RAMPART [WAS THE] SEA [WAS] FROM SEA WALL ITS 8Are you better than Thebes,*NoteCloseHebrew No-amon stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
9CUSH [WAS] STRENGTH ITS AND EGYPT AND THERE NOT [WAS] AN END PUT AND [THE] LIBYANS THEY WERE <IN> HELP YOUR 9Cush*NoteCloseThat is, the upper Nile region and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.
10ALSO IT TO <THE> EXILE IT WENT IN <THE> CAPTIVITY ALSO CHILDREN ITS THEY WERE DASHED IN PIECES AT [THE] HEAD OF ALL [THE] STREETS AND ON HONORED [PEOPLE] ITS THEY CAST A LOT AND ALL GREAT [PEOPLE] ITS THEY WERE BOUND WITH <THE> FETTERS 10Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.
11ALSO YOU YOU WILL BECOME DRUNK IT WILL BE HIDDEN ALSO YOU YOU WILL SEEK A REFUGE FROM [THE] ENEMY 11You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.
12ALL FORTIFICATIONS YOUR [ARE] FIG TREES WITH FIRST-FRUITS IF THEY WILL BE SHAKEN AND THEY WILL FALL ON [THE] MOUTH OF AN EATER 12All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
13THERE! PEOPLE YOUR [ARE] WOMEN IN MIDST YOUR TO ENEMIES YOUR CERTAINLY <TO OPEN> THEY WILL BE OPENED [THE] GATES OF LAND YOUR IT WILL CONSUME FIRE BARS YOUR 13Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
14WATER OF SIEGE DRAW FOR YOURSELF STRENGTHEN FORTIFICATIONS YOUR GO IN THE CLAY AND TRAMPLE ON THE MORTAR TAKE HOLD OF A BRICK MOLD 14Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!
15THERE IT WILL CONSUME YOU FIRE IT WILL CUT OFF YOU [THE] SWORD IT WILL CONSUME YOU LIKE THE LOCUST MAKE YOURSELF NUMEROUS LIKE THE LOCUST MAKE YOURSELF NUMEROUS LIKE THE LOCUST 15There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!
16YOU HAVE INCREASED TRADERS YOUR MORE THAN [THE] STARS OF THE HEAVENS A LOCUST IT STRIPS OFF AND IT FLEW AWAY 16You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.
17COURTIERS YOUR [ARE] LIKE THE LOCUST AND OFFICIALS YOUR [ARE] LIKE A LOCUST OF LOCUSTS WHICH ENCAMP IN THE WALLS ON A DAY OF COLDNESS [THE] SUN IT RISES AND IT FLEES AND NOT IT IS KNOWN PLACE ITS WHERE [ARE]? THEY 17Your guards*NoteCloseOr princes are like the swarming locust, and your scribes*NoteCloseOr marshals like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
18THEY ARE SLUMBERING SHEPHERDS YOUR O KING OF ASSYRIA THEY SETTLE DOWN NOBLES YOUR THEY ARE SCATTERED PEOPLE YOUR ON THE MOUNTAINS AND THERE NOT [IS ONE WHO] GATHERS [THEM] 18O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.
19THERE NOT [IS] RELIEF FOR FRACTURE YOUR [IS] SEVERE WOUND YOUR ALL [THOSE WHO] HEAR <OF> REPORT YOUR THEY STRIKE A PALM ON YOU FOR OVER WHOM? NOT HAS IT PASSED EVIL YOUR CONTINUALLY 19There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?