6. Yes, I will fling filth on you. I will treat you with contempt and set you up as a spectacle.
7. So it will be that all who see you will recoil from you and say, “Nineveh has been ravaged! Who will lament for her?” Where will I find comforters for you?
8. Are you better than No-amon, situated among channels of the Nile, water surrounding her, whose fortress and wall was water ?
9. Cush and Egypt were her might—unlimited. Put and Libya were her allies.
10. Yet she went off to exile among the captives. Even her babes were dashed to pieces at the head of all streets. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her great men were bound with chains.
11. You too will become drunk. You will hide yourself. You too will seek refuge from an enemy.