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The gates of the rivers are opened;
        the palace melts.
It is decreed:[a] She is sent into exile, carried away,
    while her female servants moan like doves, beating their breasts.
Nineveh has been like a pool of water.
        Such are its waters,[b] and others are fleeing.
            “Stop, stop!”—but no one can turn them back.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:7 Heb uncertain
  2. Nahum 2:8 Heb uncertain

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