Nahum 2:6-8
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Nineveh has hundreds of towers along her walls, some up to 200 feet in height, but before the judgment of God they will dissolve.
6 The city gates at the rivers are thrown wide open,
and the palace collapses in the resulting flood.
7 A 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.
8 Nineveh was a shimmering pool of water, full to the brim in the days of her glory,
but look, her soldiers are draining away.
“Stop! Stop!” the Assyrian commanders shout,
but no one turns back. The destruction continues.
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