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Yes, I will fling filth on you.
I will treat you with contempt
and set you up as a spectacle.
So it will be that all who see you
will recoil from you and say,
“Nineveh has been ravaged!
    Who will lament for her?”
Where will I find comforters for you?
Are you better than No-amon[a],
situated among channels of the Nile,
water surrounding her,
whose fortress and wall was water?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:8 Or city of Amon (Thebes)
  2. Nahum 3:8 Heb. the sea, i.e., the Nile.