Harlot Nineveh Will Get What She Deserves

• 4 “Because of the many idolatries of the prostitute,
  • the beautiful charm of a mistress of witchcraft,
• she who enslaves nations by her harlotries,
  • and peoples by her sorceries,
• 5 “Look! I am against you!” declares[fn]Yahweh.
  • “I will strip up your skirts over your face;
    • I will let nations look at your nakedness and your shame.
• 6 “I will throw filth upon you,
  • I will treat you with contempt,
    • I will make you a spectacle.
• 7 “And it will be that everyone who sees you will flee from you,
  • And they[fn] will say, ‘Nineveh is destroyed!’
• Who will mourn for her?
  • From whence shall I seek comforters for you?”
    

Nineveh Will Suffer the Same Fate She Inflicted on Thebes

• 8 Are you better than Thebes?[fn]
  • She who sits at the Nile, surrounded by her waters,
• her rampart was the sea and water was her wall.
• 9 Cush was her strength, Egypt without end;
  • Put and Libya were among your allies .[fn]
• 10 Yet she went into captivity as an exile;
  • her children were dashed to pieces at the head of the streets;
• they cast lots for all of her nobles;
  • all of her dignitaries were bound with chains.
• 11 You also will behave like a drunkard;
  • You also will hide yourself;
    • You also will seek refuge from the enemy.