4. The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
5. He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
6. The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
7. It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
8. But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.