Bible Verses

You Are Like Her Are you any better than Thebes beside the Nile,surrounded by water, her rampart the river, and water her wall?

so that everyone who sees you will turn away in disgust and say: Nineveh—a city of lust—is in ruins. Who will mourn for her?Where can we find one to comfort her?

I will throw filth at you, I will treat you with contempt, and turn you intoa shameful spectacle,

“I am against you,” the Lord Sabaoth says.“I will lift your skirts over your face.” I will expose the nations to your nakedness and the kingdoms to your shame.

The prostitute is paying for her immorality,her deadly charms, her magic.She traded nations with her prostitutionand caught people by her spells.

See the frantic chargers,the flashing swords and shimmering spears,the heaps of wounded,the dead and dying—We trip over corpses!

But look! The crack of whips,the rumble of wheels, and the clatter of hooves!

Bloodthirsty City Woe to the bloody city, city of lies and plunder,O city of endless loot!

The Lord Sabaoth declares: I am coming against you. I will send your chariots up in smoke, hand your young to the sword; cleanse the earth of your plunder, and the voices of your envoyswill be silenced forever.

The lion tore to pieces for his cubs,and strangled for his mates;he filled his caves with preyand his dens with mangled flesh.