1. Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and violence; the prey departeth not.
2. The crack of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots!
3. The horseman springing up, and the glitter of the sword, and the flash of the spear, and a multitude of slain, and a mass of carcases, and no end of corpses: they stumble over their corpses.
4. --Because of the multitude of the fornications of the well-favoured harlot, mistress of sorceries, that selleth nations through her fornications, and families through her sorceries,