1Yo, this bloody city is sus! Full of lies and robbery; no one's bouncing back.

2You hear that whip crack, the wheels rattling, and the horses bouncing? It’s a whole vibe.

3The horseman’s flexing with a lit sword and shiny spear: so many fallen, it’s a total mess; they trip over the bodies, no cap.

4All because of the wild vibes from that fine harlot, the queen of witchcraft, selling out nations and fams.

5Check it, I'm coming for you, says the Lord; I’ll expose your secrets and show the nations your shame, periodt.

6I’m about to throw some nasty stuff your way, make you look like a total joke.

7Everyone looking at you is gonna bounce and say, "Nineveh is done for; who’s gonna cry for her?"

8Are you really better than No, the poppin' city by the rivers, surrounded by water, with the sea as her wall?

9Ethiopia and Egypt were your squad, and they were stacked; Put and Lubim had your back.

10But she got snatched up, went into captivity; her kids were shattered in the streets, and they rolled dice for her top guys, all chained up.

11You’re gonna be lit, but not in a good way; you’ll hide and seek strength from your enemies.

12Your strongholds will be like fig trees with weak figs: shake them, and they’ll fall right into the eater’s mouth.

13Look, your crew is all women; the gates of your city are wide open for enemies: fire's gonna burn down your bars.

14Get water ready for the siege, fortify your strongholds: get into the mud, make those bricks strong.

15Fire's gonna devour you; the sword will slice you up like a cankerworm: multiply like the cankerworm, like locusts.

16You’ve got more merchants than stars in the sky: the cankerworm is gonna spoil and dip.

17Your crowns are like locusts, and your leaders are big grasshoppers, chilling in the hedges, but when the sun hits, they bounce and are nowhere to be found.

18Your shepherds are snoozing, O king of Assyria; your nobles are in the dirt: your people are scattered, and no one’s picking them up.

19There’s no healing your wounds; they’re serious: everyone who hears about you is gonna clap for your downfall, 'cause who hasn’t felt your wickedness?

1Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

2The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

3The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

4Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

5Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

7And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

8Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?

9Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

10Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

11Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

12All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

13Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

14Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

17Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

18Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

19There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?