Nahum 2:7-9

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⁷ It is decreed^[a] that the city^[b] be exiled,
    its slave women led away,
moaning like doves
    and beating their breasts.^(A)
8 Nineveh is like a pool
    whose waters^[c] run away.
“Halt! Halt!”—
    but no one turns back.^(B)
9 “Plunder the silver;
    plunder the gold!
There is no end of treasure!
    An abundance of every precious thing!”