Nahum 3

Nahum 3
1-19 Ruin Imminent and Inevitable

1-3 Nineveh will be a city of bloodshed and plunder - galloping horses, flashing swords, piles of dead people.
4-7 Because of your debauchery, I am against you and will expose your wickedness and make you a spectacle; there will be no one to comfort you.
8-10 You're no better than Thebes (lit. No-amon, but thought to refer to Thebes, in central Egypt). With all her strength and support from other nations, she still went into captivity, her infants destroyed, her dignitaries jailed.
11-13 You'll be in a stupor, hiding from the enemy, with your fortresses turned weak and your troops fighting like women, your gates wide open.
14-15 Though you draw water for the siege and take hold of your brick walls, you will still be devoured like locusts.
16-17 Though your merchants and guards and scribes are as numerous as grasshoppers, they will desert you – they will just fly away.
18-19 Your shepherds and nobles are asleep, your people are scattered, your wound is mortal. And all who hear of your demise will applaud – for no one has been able to escape "your endless cruelty." A bully receives no sympathy in his punishment.

Note: God through Nahum seems to go through a list of the defenses they might think they have – their city fortresses, their strong gates, their trade with other nations, their guards and their scribes – and tells them they are of no use against him.