<p class="poetry">Nineveh was like a pool<n id="1" /> of water<n id="2" /> throughout her days,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">but now<n id="4" /> her people<n id="5" /> are running away;<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">she cries out:<n id="7" /> &#8220;Stop! Stop!&#8221; &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">but no one turns back.<n id="8" />p>

<p class="poetry">Her conquerors cry out:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">There is no end to the treasure;p> <p class="poetry">riches of every kind of precious thing.p>

<p class="poetry">Cush<n id="1" /> and Egypt had limitless strength;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Put and the Libyans<n id="3" /> were among<n id="4" /> her<n id="5" /> allies.<n id="6" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Your shepherds<n id="1" /> are sleeping, O king of Assyria!p> <p class="poetry">Your officers<n id="2" /> are slumbering!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Your people are scattered like sheep<n id="4" /> on the mountainsp> <p class="poetry">and there is no one to regather them!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Where now is the den of the lions,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the feeding place<n id="2" /> of the young lions,p> <p class="poetry">where<n id="3" /> the lion, lioness,<n id="4" /> and lion cub once prowled<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">and no one disturbed them?<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">The charioteers<n id="1" /> will charge ahead;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">their swords<n id="3" /> will flash<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and their spears<n id="5" /> will glimmer!<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">There will be many people slain;<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">there will be piles of the dead,p> <p class="poetry">and countless casualties<n id="8" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">so many that people<n id="9" /> will stumble over the corpses.p>