⁷ All who see you will flee^(A) from you and say,
    ‘Nineveh^(B) is in ruins^(C)—who will mourn for her?’^(D)
    Where can I find anyone to comfort^(E) you?”

¹⁸ King of Assyria, your shepherds^[a] slumber;^(A)
    your nobles lie down to rest.^(B)
Your people are scattered^(C) on the mountains
    with no one to gather them.
¹⁹ Nothing can heal you;^(D)
    your wound is fatal.
All who hear the news about you
    clap their hands^(E) at your fall,
for who has not felt
    your endless cruelty?^(F)

¹⁶ Therefore, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    will send a wasting disease^(A) upon his sturdy warriors;^(B)
under his pomp^(C) a fire^(D) will be kindled
    like a blazing flame.

¹⁰ I will bring them back from Egypt
    and gather them from Assyria.^(A)
I will bring them to Gilead^(B) and Lebanon,
    and there will not be room^(C) enough for them.
¹¹ They will pass through the sea of trouble;
    the surging sea will be subdued
    and all the depths of the Nile will dry up.^(D)
Assyria’s pride^(E) will be brought down
    and Egypt’s scepter^(F) will pass away.^(G)

¹⁵ There the fire^(A) will consume you;
    the sword^(B) will cut you down—
    they will devour you like a swarm of locusts.
Multiply like grasshoppers,
    multiply like locusts!^(C)

¹⁰ She is pillaged, plundered, stripped!
    Hearts melt,^(A) knees give way,
    bodies tremble, every face grows pale.^(B)

¹¹ Where now is the lions’ den,^(C)
    the place where they fed their young,
where the lion and lioness went,
    and the cubs, with nothing to fear?