5. I am against you,” declares the Lord who commands armies.“I will strip off your clothes!I will show your nakedness to the nationsand your shame to the kingdoms;
6. I will pelt you with filth;I will treat you with contempt;I will make you a public spectacle.
7. Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust;they will say, ‘Nineveh has been devastated!Who will lament for her?’There will be no one to comfort you!”
8. You are no more secure than Thebes – she was located on the banks of the Nile;the waters surrounded her,herrampart was the sea,the water was her wall.
9. Cush and Egypt had limitless strength;Put and the Libyans were among her allies.
10. Yet she went into captivity as an exile;even her infants were smashed to pieces at the head of every street.They cast lots for her nobility;all her dignitaries were bound with chains.