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Nineveh Will Suffer the Same Fate She Inflicted on Thebes

Are you better than Thebes?[a]
    She who sits at the Nile, surrounded by her waters,
her rampart was the sea and water was her wall.
Cush was her strength, Egypt without end;
    Put and Libya were among your allies.[b]
10 Yet she went into captivity as an exile;
    her children were dashed to pieces at the head of the streets;
they cast lots for all of her nobles;
    all of her dignitaries were bound with chains.
11 You also will behave like a drunkard;
    You also will hide yourself;
        You also will seek refuge from the enemy.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:8 Hebrew “No-Amon”
  2. Nahum 3:9 Literally “your helpers”