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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Nahum 2: 13 (2:14) Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions; and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
Nahum 3: 1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.
Nahum 3: 2 Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots;
Nahum 3: 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 upon their corpses;
Nahum 3: 4 Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her harlotries, and families through her witchcrafts.
Nahum 3: 5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
Nahum 3: 6 And I will cast detestable things upon thee, and make thee vile, and will make thee as dung.
Nahum 3: 7 And 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?'
Nahum 3: 8 Art thou 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?
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