Nahum 3:6-8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶I will throw filth at you
    and treat you with contempt,
    and make you a spectacle.
⁷Then all who see you will shrink from you and say,
“Nineveh is devastated; who will bemoan her?”
    Where shall I seek comforters for you?

⁸Are you better than Thebes^[a]
    that sat by the Nile,
with water around her,
    her rampart a sea,
    water her wall?

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Nahum 3:8 Heb No-amon

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