002:004 The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings. 002:005 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place. 002:006 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. 002:007 It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts. 002:008 But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back. 002:009 Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture. 002:010 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale. 002:011 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid? 002:012 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey. 002:013 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard." 003:001 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart. 003:002 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots, 003:003 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies, 003:004 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft. 003:005 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. 003:006 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle. 003:007 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?" 003:008 Are you better than No-Amon,{or, Thebes} who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea? 003:009 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers. 003:010 Yet was she carried away.