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10 Nineveh is doomed! Destroyed!
Her people tremble with fear;
    their faces turn pale.[a]
11 What happened to this city?
    They were safer there
than powerful lions in a den,
    with no one to disturb them.
12 These are the same lions
that ferociously attacked
    their victims,
then dragged away the flesh
    to feed their young.

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Footnotes

  1. 2.10 faces turn pale: Or “ashes cover their faces.”

10 She is pillaged, plundered, stripped!
    Hearts melt,(A) knees give way,
    bodies tremble, every face grows pale.(B)

11 Where now is the lions’ den,(C)
    the place where they fed their young,
where the lion and lioness went,
    and the cubs, with nothing to fear?
12 The lion killed(D) enough for his cubs
    and strangled the prey for his mate,
filling his lairs(E) with the kill
    and his dens with the prey.(F)

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