“(Chapter 3, verses 1 and following) Woe to the city of blood, full of deceit and torn apart. The plunder will not cease. The sound of the whip, the sound of the rattling wheel, the galloping horses and the blazing chariots, the ascending knight and the flashing sword, the gleaming spear and the multitude of the slain,…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Nahum
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2The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
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1Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
— Nahum 3:2 —
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.