1. Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed!She is full of lies;she is filled with plunder;she has hoarded her spoil!
2. The chariot drivers will crack their whips;the chariot wheels will shake the ground;the chariot horses will gallop;the war chariots will bolt forward!
3. The charioteers will charge ahead;their swords will flashand their spears will glimmer!There will be many people slain;there will be piles of the dead,and countless casualties – so many that people will stumble over the corpses.
4. “Because you have acted like a wanton prostitute – a seductive mistress who practices sorcery,who enslaves nations by her harlotry,and entices peoples by her sorcery –