Nahum 3:6-8

International Standard Version

⁶ I will hurl abominable filth upon you,
    making you look foolish,
        and making an example of you.
⁷ It will be that everyone who looks at you will run away, saying,
    ‘Nineveh has been violently overthrown!
        Who will mourn for her?
    Where will I find anyone to comfort you?’”

⁸ “Are you any better than Thebes,^[a]
    which sits by the upper Nile, surrounded by water?
The sea was her defense,
    the waters her wall of protection.^[b]