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The river gates will be opened,
and the palace will melt away.
What was erected[a]
    will be exiled and carried away.
Her handmaids are lamenting like the sound of doves,
    beating their breasts.
Nineveh was like a pool of water for days
    —now they are fleeing.
Stop, stop! Yet no one turns back.
10 Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!
For there is no end of treasure—
    glory from everything precious.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:8 Or Hutzav, queen of Nineveh.