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10 Every corner of the city is turned upside down, ransacked, stripped bare.
    She will lose all hope; her knees give way;
    she will shake with fear and turn white as a sheet.

11 Where now is Nineveh’s famous and deadly lion’s den?
    The place where they nourish their young lions into killing machines?
The place where the lion and the lioness go, along with their cubs, to feed on victims?
    The place where they had nothing to fear?
12 The lion always kills enough for his cubs
    and strangles the prey for his mate,
Filling up the lair with the blood and bones and flesh of its kill
    and his dens with the fallen prey.

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