Nahum 2:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶ The river gates are opened,
    the palace trembles.
⁷ It is decreed^[a] that the city^[b] be exiled,
    its slave-women led away,
moaning like doves
    and beating their breasts.
⁸ Nineveh is like a pool
    whose waters^[c] run away.
‘Halt! Halt!’—
    but no one turns back.