Are you better than(A) Thebes,(B)
    situated on the Nile,(C)
    with water around her?
The river was her defense,
    the waters her wall.

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Are you better than [a](A)No-amon,
Which was situated by the (B)canals of the Nile,
With water surrounding her,
Whose rampart was [b]the sea,
Whose wall consisted of [c]the sea?

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:8 I.e., the city of Amon: Thebes
  2. Nahum 3:8 I.e., the Nile
  3. Nahum 3:8 I.e., the Nile

Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?

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