8. Nineveh, are you better than Thebes on the Nile River? There was water all around that city. The river helped to keep it safe. The waters were like a wall around it.
9. Cush and Egypt gave it all of the strength it needed. Put and Libya also helped it.
10. But Thebes was captured anyway. Its people were taken away as prisoners. Its babies were smashed to pieces at every street corner. The Assyrian soldiers cast lots for all of its great leaders. They put them in chains and made slaves out of them.
11. People of Nineveh, you too will get drunk. You will try to hide from your enemies. You will look for a place of safety.