1 Haway (Alas/Woe!) To the bloody iyar (city)! It is all full of kachash (lies) and paraq (robbery). The tarap (prey) doesn't depart.
2 The qawal (sound / voice) of the shawat (whip), the qawal (sound / voice) of the raish (rattling) of awapan (wheels), prancing sawas (horses), and bounding marakabah (chariots),
3 The parash (horseman) ilah (go up / offer), and the flashing charab (sword), the baraq (glittering) chanayath (spear), and a rab (multitude) of chalal (slain), and a kabad (great) heap of pagar (corpses), and there is no qatzah (end / extremity / border) of the pagar (bodies). They kashal (stumble / stagger) on their gawayah (corpse),
4 Because of the rab (multitude) of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the bailah (mistress) of kashap (witchcraft), who makar (sells) gawayam (heathen) through her prostitution, and mashapachawath (families) through her kashap (witchcraft).
5 “Behold, I am against you,” naam (declares prophetically) Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies), “and I will lift your shawal (skirts) over your panayam (face). I will show the gawayam (nations) your mair (nakedness), and the mamalakawath (kingdoms) your qalawan (shame).
6 I will shalak (throw) shaqawatz (abominable) filth on you, and nabal (make) you vile, and will shawam (place / establish / appoint) you a spectacle.
7 It will happen that all those who raah (see / saw) at you will nadad (flee) from you, and amar (said), ‘Nayanawah (Nineveh) is laid shadad (waste)! Who will nawad (mourn) for her?’ Ayan (NO ONE) will I baqash (seek) comforters for you?”
8 Are you yatab (better) than No - Amawan (Amon), who was situated among the yaarayam (rivers), who had the mayam (Waters) around her; whose chayal (rampart) was the yam (sea/waters), and her chawamah (wall) was of the yam (sea/waters)?
9 Kawash (Cush) and Matzarayam (Matzarayam / Egypt) were her boundless itzamah (strength). Pawat (Put) and Libya were her helpers.
10 Yet was she carried away. She halak (move) into shabay (captivity). Her young iwalal (children) also were ratash (dashed) in pieces at the raash (head) of all the chawatzawath (streets), and they yadad (cast) gawaral (lots) for her honorable men, and all her gadawal (very great/important/mighty) men were rathaq (bound) in zaqayam (chains).
11 You also will be shakar (drunken). You will be ilam (hidden). You also will baqash (seek) a stronghold because of the ayab (enemy).
12 All your fortresses will be like thaan (fig) trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are nawai (shaken), they napal (fall / be cast down) into the pah (mouth) of the eater.
13 Behold, your troops in your qarab (among / near) are nashayam (women). The shairay (gates) of your aratz (Earth/land) are pathach (set) wide pathach (open) to your ayab (enemy). The ash (fire) has akal (eat) your barayach (bars).
14 Shaab (draw) mayam (Waters) for the matzawar (siege). Chazaq (strengthen) your fortresses. Bawaa (bring) into the tayat (clay), and ramas (tread) the mortar. Make the brick kiln chazaq (strong).
15 There the ash (fire) will akal (eat) you. The charab (sword) will karath (cut) you off. It will akal (eat) you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the arabah (locust).
16 You rabah (have) increased your rakal (merchants) more than the kawakabay (stars) of the skies. The grasshopper pashat (strips), and iwap (flying) away.
17 Your guards are like the arabah (locusts), and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the gadarawath (walls) on a qarah (cold) yawam (day), but when the shamash (sun) appears, they nadad (flee) away, and their maqawam (place) is not yadai (known) ay (where) they are.
18 Your raih (shepherds) nawam (slumber), malak (king) of Ashawar (Assyria). Your adayar (nobles) lie down. Your im (nation / people) are pawash (scattered) on the harayam (mountains), and there is no one to qabatz (gather) them.
19 There is no kahah (healing) your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who shamai (hearken / hear) the shamai (report) of you thaqai (blow / sound alarm) their kap (hands) over you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty?