Nahum 3:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸ Nineveh, are you any better than Thebes, the capital of Egypt? She too had a river to protect her like a wall—the Nile was her defense. ⁹ She ruled Ethiopia^[a] and Egypt, there was no limit to her power; Libya was her ally. ¹⁰ Yet the people of Thebes were carried off into exile. At every street corner their children were beaten to death. Their leading men were carried off in chains and divided among their captors.