Nahum 2:6-8

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⁶ The river gates are thrown open,
    and the palace ·is destroyed [collapses; dissolves; melts].
⁷ It has been ·announced [decreed] that ·the people of Nineveh [^Lshe]
    will be ·captured [exiled; or stripped; exposed] and carried away.
The slave girls moan like doves
    and beat their breasts [^Ca sign of grief].
⁸ Nineveh is like a pool,
    and now its water is draining away.
“Stop! Stop!” the people yell,
    but no one turns back.