Nahum 3:8-10

New International Version - UK

⁸ Are you better than Thebes,
    situated on the Nile,
    with water around her?
The river was her defence,
    the waters her wall.
⁹ Cush^[a] and Egypt were her boundless strength;
    Put and Libya were among her allies.
¹⁰ Yet she was taken captive
    and went into exile.
Her infants were dashed to pieces
    at every street corner.
Lots were cast for her nobles,
    and all her great men were put in chains.