The City Falls and is Plundered
6
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
7
And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.
8
But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.
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Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
10
She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
Bible text: American Standard Version (1901) · Public domain