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Nahum 3:8-10
New Catholic Bible
Nahum 3:8-10
New Catholic Bible
Are You Better than No-amon?[a]
8 [b]Are you better than No-amon,
a city situated among streams
and surrounded by water,
with the seas serving as her rampart
and water as her wall?
9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength,
and that strength was boundless;
Put and the Lybians were her allies.
10 Nevertheless, even she became an exile
and went into captivity.
Even her infants were dashed to pieces
at every street corner.
Lots were cast for her nobles,
and all her leaders were put in chains.
Footnotes
- Nahum 3:8 Nineveh will know the fate that she herself inflicted, at the time of her splendor, at Thebes, the opulent city of Egypt plundered, in 767 B.C., by Ashurbanipal. This tragic change of situation underlies the fragility of empires built by men.
- Nahum 3:8 No-amon: called Thebes by the Greeks, was the capital of Upper Egypt; it, too, fell despite the power of Pharaoh Tirhakah (an Ethiopian by origin; see v. 9). Put: a non-Semitic population in southern Egypt.
