6. I will throw filth on youand treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
7. Then all who see you will recoil from you, saying, “Nineveh is devastated;who will show sympathy to her? ”Where can I find anyone to comfort you?
8. Are you better than Thebes that sat along the Nilewith water surrounding her,whose rampart was the sea,the river her wall?
9. Cush and Egypt were her endless source of strength;Put and Libya were among her allies.
10. Yet she became an exile;she went into captivity.Her children were also dashed to pieces at the head of every street.They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.
11. You also will become drunk;you will hide yourself. You also will seek refuge from the enemy.
12. All your fortresses are fig treeswith figs that ripened first;when shaken, they fall —right into the mouth of the eater!
13. Look, your troops are like women among you;the gates of your landare wide open to your enemies.Fire will devour the bars of your gates.
14. Draw water for the siege;strengthen your fortresses.Step into the clay and tread the mortar;take hold of the brick-mold!
15. The fire will devour you there;the sword will cut you down.It will devour you like the young locust. Multiply yourselves like the young locust,multiply like the swarming locust!