Nahum 2:6-8

New Living Translation

⁶ The river gates have been torn open!
    The palace is about to collapse!
⁷ Nineveh’s exile has been decreed,
    and all the servant girls mourn its capture.
They moan like doves
    and beat their breasts in sorrow.
⁸ Nineveh is like a leaking water reservoir!
    The people are slipping away.
“Stop, stop!” someone shouts,
    but no one even looks back.