But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.

But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.

Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.