1. Doomed is the lying, murderous city,full of wealth to be looted and plundered!
2. Listen! The crack of the whip,the rattle of wheels,the gallop of horses,the jolting of chariots!
3. Horsemen charge,swords flash, spears gleam!Corpses are piled high,dead bodies without number —men stumble over them!
4. Nineveh the whore is being punished.Attractive and full of deadly charms,she enchanted nations and enslaved them.
5. The Lord Almighty says,“I will punish you, Nineveh!I will strip you nakedand let the nations see you,see you in all your shame.
6. I will treat you with contemptand cover you with filth.People will stare at you in horror.
7. All who see you will shrink back.They will say, ‘Nineveh lies in ruins!Who has any sympathy for her?Who will want to comfort her?’ ”
8. Nineveh, are you any better than Thebes, the capital of Egypt? She too had a river to protect her like a wall — the Nile was her defence.
9. She ruled Ethiopia and Egypt, there was no limit to her power; Libya was her ally.