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Take the silver!
    Take the gold!
There is no end to the treasure—
    piles of wealth of every kind.
10 Nineveh is robbed, ruined, and destroyed.
    The people lose their courage, and their knees knock.
    Stomachs ache, and everyone’s face grows pale.

11 Where is the lions’[a] den
    and the place where they feed their young?
Where did the lion, lioness, and cubs go
    without being afraid?

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Footnotes

  1. 2:11 lions’ The symbol of Assyria was the lion.

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