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.
11. You too will act like drunkards;you will go into hiding;you too will seek refuge from the enemy.
12. All your fortifications will be like fig trees with first-ripe fruit:If they are shaken, their figs will fall into the mouth of the eater!
13. Your warriors will be like women in your midst;the gates of your land will be wide open to your enemies;fire will consume the bars of your gates.
14. Draw yourselves water for a siege!Strengthen your fortifications!Trample the mud and tread the clay!Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
15. There the fire will consume you;the sword will cut you down;it will devour you like the young locust would.Multiply yourself like the young locust;multiply yourself like the flying locust!
16. Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven!They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.