Nahum 3:8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁸ Are you better than Thebes^[a]
    that sat by the Nile,
with water around her,
    her rampart a sea,
    water her wall?
⁹ Ethiopia^[b] was her strength,
    Egypt too, and that without limit;
    Put and the Libyans were her^[c] helpers.

¹⁰ Yet she became an exile,
    she went into captivity;
even her infants were dashed in pieces
    at the head of every street;
lots were cast for her nobles,
    all her dignitaries were bound in fetters.