Nahum 3:1-5

1What sorrow awaits Nineveh, the city of murder and lies! She is crammed with wealth and is never without victims.

2Hear the crack of whips, the rumble of wheels! Horses’ hooves pound, and chariots clatter wildly.

3See the flashing swords and glittering spears as the charioteers charge past! There are countless casualties, heaps of bodies— so many bodies that people stumble over them.

4All this because Nineveh, the beautiful and faithless city, mistress of deadly charms, enticed the nations with her beauty. She taught them all her magic, enchanting people everywhere.

5“I am your enemy!” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “And now I will lift your skirts and show all the earth your nakedness and shame.