Woe to the bloody city!
Hear the crack of the whip,
Horsemen charging,
“Because you acted like a prostitute,
I am against you, Nineveh”
“I will fling loathsome filth at you,
so that everyone who sees you
“Are you any better than Thebes,
Her strength was Ethiopia and Egypt.
Yet she was exiled
“You too, Nineveh, will be drunk with fear;
All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs;
Your troops are weak as women before your foes;
“Draw water for the siege,
There the fire will consume you,
Increase the numbers of your merchants
until your watchmen are locusts,
“King of Assyria:
There is no healing for your hurt,