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Nahum 3:8-19

8Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, water her wall? 9Ethiopia was her strength, Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers. 10Yet she became an exile, she went into captivity; even her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; lots were cast for her nobles, all her dignitaries were bound in fetters. 11You also will be drunken, you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy. 12All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs— if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater. 13Look at your troops: they are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured the bars of your gates. 14Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; trample the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold! 15There the fire will devour you, the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust, multiply like the grasshopper! 16You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust sheds its skin and flies away. 17Your guards are like grasshoppers, your scribes like swarms of locusts settling on the fences on a cold day— when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they have gone. 18Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them. 19There is no assuaging your hurt, your wound is mortal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For who has ever escaped your endless cruelty?

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