6. The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple is thrown down to the ground.
7. And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.
8. And as for Ninive, her waters are like a great pool, but the men flee away. They cry: Stand, stand, but there is none that will return back.
9. Take ye the spoil of the silver, take the spoil of the gold: for there is no end of the riches of all the precious furniture.
10. She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.