Nahum 3:6-8

Contemporary English Version

⁶I will cover you with garbage,
treat you like trash,
    and rub you in the dirt.
⁷Everyone who sees you
    will turn away and shout,
“Nineveh is done for!
Is anyone willing to mourn
    or to give her comfort?”

Nineveh's Fate Is Sealed

⁸Nineveh, do you feel safer
than the city of Thebes?^[a]
The Nile River
was its wall of defense.^[b]

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Footnotes

3.8 Thebes: In 663 b.c., the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal captured this Egyptian city, which seems to have been built with protection similar to that of Nineveh.
3.8 was its … defense: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.