NAHUM.
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Terrible things will happen to  Nineveh, that city  that is full of people who murder MTY and lie.  The city is full of things that were seized  from other countries by their soldiers;  their armies continually LIT have acted brutally towards people whom they conquered. 
But  now listen to the enemy soldiers coming to attack Nineveh;  listen to them cracking their whips, and  listen to the rattle of  their chariot wheels!  Listen to their galloping horses and their chariots as they bounce along! 
 Look at their flashing swords and glittering spears as the horsemen race forward! Many  people of Nineveh will be killed;  there will be piles of corpses,  with the result that people will stumble over them. 
All  that will happen because  Nineveh is like MET a beautiful prostitute  who lures men to where they will be ruined;  Nineveh is a beautiful city which has attracted/enticed  people of other nations  to come there.  The people of Nineveh taught those people  of other nations rituals of magic, and caused them to become their slaves. 
 So the Commander of the armies of angels says to  the people of Nineveh: “I am your enemy, and I will  cause the people in other nations to see you  completely humiliated like MET  women who have committed adultery are humiliated by having their skirts lifted high,  with the result that people can see their naked  bodies. 
I will cause rubbish/garbage to be thrown at you; I will show  others that I despise you very much, and I will cause you to be publicly ridiculed. 
All those who see you will turn their backs to you and say, ‘Nineveh is ruined, but absolutely no one RHQ will mourn for it.’ No one will regret Nineveh being destroyed!” 
Your city is certainly RHQ no safer than Thebes  city was.  Thebes was an important city beside the Nile  River; the river was  like SIM a wall that protected the city DOU. 
 The rulers of Ethiopia and Egypt helped Thebes; there was no limit to their power.  The governments of the nearby countries of Put and Libya were also allies of Thebes. 
But Thebes was captured, and  its people were ◄exiled/forced to go to other countries►. Their babies were dashed to pieces in the streets  of the city.  Enemy soldiers ◄cast lots/threw small marked stones► to decide who would get each official in Thebes  to become his slave. All the leaders of Thebes were fastened/tied by chains. 
You  people of Nineveh will similarly become dazed and drunk, and you will search for places to hide  to escape from your enemies. 
 Your enemies will cause the walls around your city to fall down like SIM the first figs that fall from fig trees  each year.  Your city will be captured easily, like MET  figs that fall into the mouths HYP of those who shake the fig trees. 
Look at your soldiers! They will be  as weak/helpless as MET women! The gates of your city will be opened wide  to allow your enemies  to enter them,  and then the bars of those gates will be burned. 
Store up water  now to use when your enemies surround the city! Repair the forts! Dig up clay and trample it  to make it soft, and put it into molds to make bricks  to repair the walls! 
 Nevertheless, your enemies will burn your  city; they will kill you with their swords; they will kill you like SIM locusts  destroy crops. 
In your  city there are now very many merchants;  it seems that there are more of them than there are stars. But  when your city is being destroyed, those merchants will take the valuable things and disappear  like SIM locusts that strip the leaves from plants and  then fly away. 
Your leaders are  also like a swarm of SIM locusts DOU that crowd together on the stone fences/walls on a cold day, and  then fly away when the sun comes up, and no one knows where they have gone. 
O King of Assyria, your officials will  all be dead EUP; your important people will lie down and rest  forever. Your people will be scattered over the mountains, and there will no one to gather them  together. 
You  are like someone who has a wound that cannot be healed;  it will be a wound that causes him to die. And all those who hear about what has happened to you will clap their hands  joyfully.  They will say, “Everyone has RHQ suffered because he continually was  very cruel to us.”