Nahum 2:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ The river gates are opened
    and the palace trembles.
⁸ The captives are taken into exile
    and its slave girls are carried away,
moaning like doves
    and beating their breasts.
⁹ Nineveh is like a lake
    whose waters are ebbing away.
“Stop! Stop!” goes up the cry,
    but no one turns back.