2. Hear the sound of whips.Listen to the wheels.Hear horses gallopingand chariots bouncing along!
3. Soldiers on horses are charging.Their swords are shining.Their spears are gleaming!There are many bodies.Dead people are piled up.There are too many to count.People fall over the dead bodies.
4. The city was like a prostitute.She was charming and a lover of magic.She made nations slaves with her evil waysand her witchcraft.
5. “I am against you, Nineveh,” says the Lord of heaven’s armies.“I will pull your dress up over your face.I will show the nations your nakedness.And I will show the kingdoms your shame.
6. I will throw dirt on you.I will make a fool of you.People will see you and make fun of you.
7. Everyone who sees you will run away and say,‘Nineveh is in ruins. Who will cry for her?’Nineveh, I cannot find anyone to comfort you.”
8. Nineveh, you are no better than Thebes.She sits by the Nile Riverwith water all around her.The river was her defense.The waters were like a wall around her.
9. Cush and Egypt gave her endless strength.Put and Libya supported her.
10. But Thebes was captured.And she went into captivity.Her small children were beaten to deathat every street corner.Lots were thrown for her important men.And all of her leaders were put in chains.
11. Nineveh, you will be drunk, too.You will hide.You will look for a place safe from the enemy.
12. All your defenses are like fig trees with ripe fruit.When the tree is shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.