Nahum 3:8-11

International Children’s Bible

⁸ Nineveh, you are no better than Thebes.^[a]
    She sits by the Nile River
    with water all around her.
The river was her defense.
    The waters were like a wall around her.
⁹ Cush and Egypt gave her endless strength.
    Put and Libya supported her.
¹⁰ But Thebes was captured.
    And she went into captivity.
Her small children were beaten to death
    at every street corner.
Lots were thrown for her important men.
    And all of her leaders were put in chains.

¹¹ Nineveh, you will be drunk, too.
    You will hide.
    You will look for a place safe from the enemy.