(A)Are you better than (B)Thebes[a]
    that sat (C)by the Nile,
with water around her,
    her rampart a sea,
    and water her wall?
(D)Cush was her strength;
    Egypt too, and that without limit;
    (E)Put and the (F)Libyans were her[b] helpers.

10 (G)Yet she became an exile;
    she went into captivity;
(H)her infants were dashed in pieces
    at the head of every street;
for her honored men (I)lots were cast,
    (J)and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 (K)You also will be drunken;
    you will go into hiding;
(L)you will seek a refuge from the enemy.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:8 Hebrew No-amon
  2. Nahum 3:9 Hebrew your

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