Then all who see you will recoil from you, saying,(A)
“Nineveh is devastated;
who will show sympathy to her?”
Where can I find anyone to comfort you?

Are you better than Thebes[a](B)
that sat along the Nile
with water surrounding her,
whose rampart was the sea,
the river[b][c] her wall?
Cush and Egypt were her endless source of strength;
Put and Libya were among her[d] allies.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:8 Hb No-amon
  2. 3:8 LXX, Syr, Vg read water
  3. 3:8 Lit sea from sea
  4. 3:9 Lit your

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