<p class="poetry">Draw yourselves water for a siege!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Strengthen your fortifications!p> <p class="poetry">Trample the mud<n id="2" /> and tread the clay!p> <p class="poetry">Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">No one can withstand<n id="1" /> his indignation!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">No one can resist<n id="3" /> his fierce anger!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire,p> <p class="poetry">boulders are broken up<n id="5" /> as he approaches.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust;p> <p class="poetry">they will say, &#8216;Nineveh has been devastated!p> <p class="poetry">Who will lament for her?&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">There will be no one to comfort you!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your destruction is like an incurable wound;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your demise is like a fatal injury!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">All who hear what has happened to you<n id="3" /> will clap their hands for joy,<n id="4" />p> <p class="bodytext">for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!<n id="5" />p>