4 Because of the continual prostitution of the prostitute,the attractive mistress of sorcery,who betrays nations by her prostitutionand clans by her witchcraft,
5 I am against you. This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.I will lift your skirts over your faceand display your nakedness to nations,your shame to kingdoms.
6 I will throw filth on youand treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
7 Then all who see you will recoil from you, saying, “Nineveh is devastated;who will show sympathy to her? ”Where can I find anyone to comfort you?
8 Are you better than Thebes that sat along the Nilewith water surrounding her,whose rampart was the sea,the river her wall?
9 Cush and Egypt were her endless source of strength;Put and Libya were among her allies.
10 Yet she became an exile;she went into captivity.Her children were also dashed to pieces at the head of every street.They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.