Nahum 2:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

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.
⁹ ‘Plunder the silver,
    plunder the gold!
There is no end of treasure!
    An abundance of every precious thing!’