8. Are you better than No Amon, who dwelt by the Nile-streams, with waters around her, whose rampart was like the sea, whose wall was like the sea?
9. Kush and Mitsrayim were her strength, even unlimited. Put and Luḇim were your helpers.
10. Yet she was exiled, she went into captivity. At the head of every street her young children were dashed to pieces. Lots were cast for her esteemed men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11. You too are to become drunk, you are to go into hiding. You too are to seek refuge from the enemy.
12. All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs, when shaken they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.
13. See, your people in your midst are women! The gates of your land shall be opened wide to your enemies. Fire shall consume your gate bars.
14. Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your defences! Go into the clay and tread the mortar, lay hold of the brick mould!
15. There a fire shall consume you, a sword cut you off, eat you up like a locust. Make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locust!
16. You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust shall strip off and fly away.
17. Your officials are like the locusts, and your marshals are like the great grasshoppers, which settle in the hedges on a cold day – when the sun rises they flee away, and the place where they are is unknown.