Nahum 2:6-11

6The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.

7Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts.

8Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out: “Stop! Stop!” – but no one turns back.

9Her conquerors cry out: “Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure; riches of every kind of precious thing.

10Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!

11Where now is the den of the lions, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, lioness, and lion cub once prowled and no one disturbed them?