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I will throw dirty things on you
    and treat you in a hateful way.
    People will look at you and laugh.
Everyone who sees you will be shocked.
    They will say, ‘Nineveh is destroyed.
    Who will cry for her?’
I know I cannot find anyone to comfort you, Nineveh.”

Nineveh, are you better than Thebes[a] on the Nile River? Thebes also had water all around her to protect herself from enemies. She used that water like a wall too.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:8 Thebes A great city in Egypt. It was destroyed in 663 B.C. by the Assyrian army.

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