Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Woe to the city of blood, She is all with lies--burglary--full, Prey doth not depart.
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies [and] violence; the prey departeth not.
Nahum — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
1. Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; 1. O urbs sanguinaria! Tota mendacio (vertunt) rapina plena est; non recedit praeda (vel, non recedet praeda.) The Prophet, as I have said, more clearly expresses here the reason why the vengeance…