Nahum 2:5-7

The Voice

⁵Your king remembers his specially-trained forces,
but they can’t get it together, stumbling as they march.
They run to protect the city wall
and try to shield it from the attackers. Their resistance fails.

Nineveh has hundreds of towers along her walls, some up to 200 feet in height, but before the judgment of God they will dissolve.

⁶The city gates at the rivers are thrown wide open,
    and the palace collapses in the resulting flood.
⁷A decree is set and goes out: Nineveh will be ransacked.
    She is stripped and will be carried far away from home.
You can hear the young girls pounding their breaking hearts
    and moaning like terrified doves.