2 Listen! The crack of the whip,the rattle of wheels,the gallop of horses,the jolting of chariots!
3 Horsemen charge,swords flash, spears gleam!Corpses are piled high,dead bodies without number —men stumble over them!
4 Nineveh the whore is being punished.Attractive and full of deadly charms,she enchanted nations and enslaved them.
5 The Lord Almighty says,“I will punish you, Nineveh!I will strip you nakedand let the nations see you,see you in all your shame.
6 I will treat you with contemptand cover you with filth.People will stare at you in horror.
7 All who see you will shrink back.They will say, ‘Nineveh lies in ruins!Who has any sympathy for her?Who will want to comfort her?’ ”
8 Nineveh, are you any better than Thebes, the capital of Egypt? She too had a river to protect her like a wall — the Nile was her defence.