6 The river gates are opened,
the palace trembles.
7 It is decreed* that the city* be exiled,
its slave women led away,
moaning like doves
and beating their breasts.
8 Nineveh is like a pool
whose waters* run away.
Halt! Halt!
but no one turns back.
9 Plunder the silver,
plunder the gold!
There is no end of treasure!
An abundance of every precious thing!
10 Devastation, desolation, and destruction!
Hearts faint and knees tremble,
all loins quake,
all faces grow pale!
11 What became of the lions den,
the cave* of the young lions,
where the lion goes,
and the lions cubs, with no one to disturb them?
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