Nahum 3:8-10

Common English Bible

⁸     Are you better than Thebes,
        situated by the Nile, waters surrounding her,
        whose fortress is sea and whose city wall is waters?
⁹ Cush^[a] and Egypt constituted her strength, without limit;
        Put and the Libyans were her^[b] help.
¹⁰ Yet even she was destined for exile;
        she went into captivity.
Indeed, her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street.
        They cast lots for her officials;
            all of her powerful citizens were bound in chains.