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I will cover you with garbage,
treat you like trash,
    and rub you in the dirt.
Everyone who sees you
    will turn away and shout,
“Nineveh is done for!
Is anyone willing to mourn
    or to give her comfort?”

Nineveh's Fate Is Sealed

Nineveh, do you feel safer
    than the city of Thebes?[a]
The Nile River
    was its wall of defense.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 3.8 Thebes: In 663 b.c., the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal captured this Egyptian city, which seems to have been built with protection similar to that of Nineveh.
  2. 3.8 was its … defense: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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