The river gates are opened,
and the palace erodes away.(A)

Beauty[a] is stripped;[b]
she is carried away;
her ladies-in-waiting moan
like the sound of doves(B)
and beat their breasts.(C)
Nineveh has been like a pool of water
from her first days,[c]
but they are fleeing.
“Stop! Stop!” they cry,
but no one turns back.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:7 Text emended; MT reads Huzzab
  2. 2:7 Hb obscure
  3. 2:8 Hb obscure

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