6. The river gates are opened,and the palace erodes away.
7. Beauty is stripped, she is carried away;her ladies-in-waiting moanlike the sound of doves, and beat their breasts.
8. Nineveh has been like a pool of waterfrom her first days, but they are fleeing.“Stop! Stop! ” they cry,but no one turns back.
9. “Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! ” There is no end to the treasure,an abundance of every precious thing.
10. Desolation, decimation, devastation!Hearts melt, knees tremble, loins shake, every face grows pale!
11. Where is the lions’ lair, or the feeding ground of the young lions,where the lion and lioness prowled,and the lion’s cub,with nothing to frighten them away?