8Are you better than Thebes,
stationed by the Nile with water around her,
whose rampart was the sea,
whose wall was the water?
9Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength;
Put and Libya were her allies.
10Yet she became an exile;
she went into captivity.
Her infants were dashed to pieces
at the head of every street.
They cast lots for her dignitaries,
and all her nobles were bound in chains.
— Nahum 3:8-10