Nahum 3:7-9

Common English Bible

⁷ Then all who look at you will recoil from you and say,
        “Nineveh has been devastated!
        Who will lament for her?”
        Where could I possibly seek comforters for you?
⁸     Are you better than Thebes,
        situated by the Nile, waters surrounding her,
        whose fortress is sea and whose city wall is waters?
⁹ Cush^[a] and Egypt constituted her strength, without limit;
        Put and the Libyans were her^[b] help.