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The Overthrow of Nineveh
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Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departs not.
| E | AUI | OIR | DMIM | KLA | KChSh | FRQ
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| | the·and·he-will | ? | ? | as·to·the | as·? | ?
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| | MLEA | LE | IMISh | TRF
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| | from·to·I-will·the | not | he-will·from·he-will·? | ?
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Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots;
| B | QUL | ShUT | UQUL | ROSh | EUFN | USUS | DAR
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| | ? | ? | and·? | ? | I-will·and·then | and·? | ?
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| | UMRKBA | MRQDA
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| | and·from·? | from·?
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3
The horseman charging, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear; and a multitude of slain, and a heap of carcases; and there is no end of the corpses, and they stumble on their corpses;
| G | FRSh | MOLA | ULAB | ChRB | UBRQ | ChNITh
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| | ? | from·ascend | and·to·the·in | Horeb | and·in·? | ?
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| | URB | ChLL | UKBD | FGR | UEIN | QTsA | LGUIA
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| | and·? | ? | and·as·in·? | ? | and·no | ? | to·?
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| | IKShLU | (UKShLU) | BGUIThM
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| | he-will·as·? | and·as·? | in·?
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Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her witchcrafts.
| D | MRB | ZNUNI | ZUNA | TUBTh | ChN | BOLTh | KShFIM | AMKRTh
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| | from·? | ? | ? | ? | ? | in·? | as·? | the·from·as·?
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| | GUIM | BZNUNIA | UMShFChUTh | BKShFIA
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| | ? | in·? | and·from·? | in·as·?
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5
Behold, I am against you, says IAUA of hosts, and I will uncover your skirts on your face, and I will shew the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
| A | ANNI | ELIK
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| | the·we·we·he-will | I-will·to·he-will·as
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| | NEM | IAUA | TsBEUTh | UGLIThI | ShULIK | OL- | FNIK
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| | we·I-will·from | IAUA | hosts | and·? | ? | on | ?
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| | UAREIThI | GUIM | MORK
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| | and·the·? | ? | from·?
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| | UMMLKUTh | QLUNK
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| | and·from·from·to·as·and·she-will | ?
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6
I will cast detestable things on you, and make you vile, and will make you as dung.
| U | UAShLKThI | OLIK | ShQTsIM | UNBLThIK | UShMThIK | KREI
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| | and·the·? | ? | ? | and·we·in·to·? | and·? | as·?
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7
It shall come to pass, that all they that look on you shall flee from you, and say: 'Nineveh is laid waste; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for you?'
| Z | UAIA | KL- | REIK | IDUD | MMK
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| | and·the·he-will·the | all | ? | he-will·? | from·from·as
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| | UEMR | ShDDA | NINUA | MI
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| | and·say | ? | we·he-will·we·and·the | from·he-will
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| | INUD | LA | MEIN | EBQSh
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| | he-will·we·and·? | to·the | from·no | I-will·in·stubble
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| | MNChMIM | LK
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| | from·we·? | to·as
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8
Are you better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and of the sea her wall?
| Ch | AThITBI | MNE | EMUN
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| | the·? | from·we·I-will | I-will·from·and·we
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| | AIShBA | BIERIM | MIM | SBIB
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| | the·he-will·? | in·he-will·I-will·? | waters | ?
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| | LA | EShR- | ChIL | IM | MIM | ChUMThA
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| | to·the | which | ? | sea | waters | ?
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9
Ethiopia and Egypt were your strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were your helpers.
| T | KUSh | OTsMA | UMTsRIM | UEIN | QTsA | FUT
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| | as·and·? | ? | and·from·? | and·no | ? | ?
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| | ULUBIM | AIU | BOZRThK
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| | and·to·and·in·sea | be | in·?
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10
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
| I | GM- | AIE | LGLA | ALKA | BShBI | GM
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| | ? | the·he-will·I-will | to·? | the·to·as·the | in·? | ?
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| | OLLIA | IRTShU | BRESh | KL- | ChUTsUTh | UOL- | NKBDIA
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| | ? | he-will·? | in·? | all | ? | and·on | we·as·in·?
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| | IDU | GURL | UKL- | GDULIA | RThQU | BZQIM
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| | he-will·? | ? | and·all | ? | ? | in·?
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11
You also shall be drunken, you shall swoon; you also shall seek a refuge because of the enemy.
| IE | GM- | ETh | ThShKRI | ThAI | NOLMA | GM- | ETh | ThBQShI | MOUZ
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| | ? | the | ? | ? | we·? | ? | the | ? | from·?
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| | MEUIB
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| | from·I-will·and·he-will·in
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12
All your fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
| IB | KL- | MBTsRIK | ThENIM | OM- | BKURIM | EM-
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| | all | from·in·? | ? | ? | in·as·and·? | I-will·from
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| | INUOU | UNFLU | OL- | FI | EUKL
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| | he-will·we·and·? | and·we·? | on | ? | I-will·and·all
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13
Behold, your people in the middle of you are women; the gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies; the fire has devoured your bars.
| IG | ANA | OMK | NShIM | BQRBK
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| | listen | ? | we·? | in·?
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| | LEIBIK | FThUCh | NFThChU
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| | to·I-will·he-will·in·he-will·as | ? | we·?
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| | ShORI | ERTsK | EKLA | ESh | BRIChIK
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| | ? | I-will·? | food | I-will·? | in·?
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14
Draw you water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, lay hold of the brickmould.
| ID | MI | MTsUR | ShEBI- | LK | ChZQI | MBTsRIK
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| | from·he-will | from·? | ? | to·as | ? | from·in·?
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| | BEI | BTIT | URMSI | BChMR | AChZIQI
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| | in·I-will·he-will | in·? | and·? | in·? | the·?
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15
There shall the fire devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall devour you like the canker-worm; make yourself many as the canker-worm, make yourself many as the locusts.
| TU | ShM | ThEKLK | ESh | ThKRIThK | ChRB | ThEKLK
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| | name | ? | I-will·? | ? | Horeb | ?
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| | KILQ | AThKBD | KILQ | AThKBDI
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| | as·he-will·to·? | the·? | as·he-will·to·? | the·?
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16
You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven; the canker-worm spreads itself, and flies away.
| TZ | ARBITh | RKLIK | MKUKBI | AShMIM
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| | the·? | ? | from·as·and·as·in·he-will | the·heaven
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| | ILQ | FShT | UIOF
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| | he-will·to·? | ? | and·he-will·?
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17
Your crowned are as the locusts, and your marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the walls in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
| IZ | MNZRIK | KERBA | UTFSRIK | KGUB | GBI | AChUNIM
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| | from·we·? | as·I-will·? | and·? | as·? | ? | the·?
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| | BGDRUTh | BIUM | QRA | ShMSh | ZRChA | UNUDD
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| | in·? | in·day | ? | brightness | stand | and·we·and·?
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| | ULE- | NUDO | MQUMU | EIM
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| | and·not | we·and·? | from·? | I-will·sea
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18
Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria, your worthies are at rest; your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is none to gather them.
| ICh | NMU | ROIK | MLK | EShUR | IShKNU
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| | we·from·and | ? | from·to·as | I-will·? | he-will·?
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| | EDIRIK | NFShU | OMK | OL- | AARIM | UEIN | MQBTs
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| | I-will·? | we·? | ? | on | the·the·? | and·no | from·?
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19
There is no assuaging of your hurt, your wound is grievous; all that hear the report of you clap the hands over you; for on whom has not your wickedness passed continually?
| IT | EIN- | KAA | LShBRK | NChLA | MKThK | KL | ShMOI | ShMOK
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| | no | as·the·the | to·? | we·? | from·as·? | all | ? | ?
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| | ThQOU | KF | OLIK | KI | OL- | MI | LE- | OBRA | ROThK
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| | ? | as·? | ? | that | on | from·he-will | not | ? | ?
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