⁸ 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.
⁹ 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.