1 Doom, city of bloodshed—all deceit,full of plunder: prey cannot get away.
2 Cracking whip and rumbling wheel,galloping horse and careening chariot!
3 Charging cavalry, flashing sword, and glittering spear;countless slain, masses of corpses,endless dead bodies—they stumble over their dead bodies!
4 Because of the many whorings of the whore,the lovely graces of the mistress of sorceries,the one who sells nations by means of her whoringsand peoples by means of her sorceries: