12 You Ethiopians too will be slain by My sword.
13 He will stretch out his hand against the north and devastate Assyria and make Nineveh as a wasteland— dry as a desert.
14 Flocks will lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts— both the little owl and the great owl will lodge in her pillars. A voice will hoot in the window. Ruin will be in the doorway, for the cedar beams will be exposed.
15 This is the exultant city, dwelling securely, saying in her heart, ‘It’s me--no one else but me!’ How did she become a ruin, an abode for wild beasts? Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.